A review by laurencenz
How to be Both by Ali Smith

5.0

Remarkable. The weaving of stories and narratives with a superfine and deft touch - a couple of words here, and reference there. The story of George a young girl in Cambridge, who loses her mother an activist, who in interested in/obsessed by a 15th century italian painter Francesco del Cossa. The first half is centered on her, with some lovely sidelines in friends and family, and the second half on the artist himself. But the two tales are so expertly intervweaved - not just the characters and the plot but the interiors of the characters and the ideas.

O for Awesome.