COMPANION PIECE by Ali Smith - Spotlight
Award-winning author @AliSmith shines a guiding light through the nightmarish provocative novel, #COMPANIONPIECE (VintageBooks) that intertwines our atomized present and the uncannily parallel era of the Black Plague. A story is never an answer. A story is always a question. A day spent locked in a room by border officials without any explanation as to why. A riddle that seemingly has no answer: curlew or curfew, you choose. A phone call from a college friend who hasn't been in touch in years. And all of it is somehow inextricably linked to the life of a young blacksmith hounded from her trade and branded a vagrant nearly 500 years ago. Companion Piece is a kaleidoscope of human history and experience, and a stunning addition to Ali Smith's gorgeous canon. Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born August 1962 in Inverness) is a Scottish writer. She was born to working-class parents, raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at the University of Aber