- Interpersonal relations, Christmas stories, Fiction, New York Times reviewed
When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone?
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Contemporary, intimate, prestige and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ali Smith
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 321
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780241207031
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Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first book, Free Love, won the Saltire First Book Award. She is also the author of Like (1997); Other Stories and Other Stories (1999); Hotel World (2001), which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award, the East England Arts Award of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002; The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003); The Accidental (2005), which won the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize; and The First Person and Other Stories (2008). [Source][1] [1]: http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Au
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