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This text offers a collection of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, and a child. It features writers like Plath, Grassic Gibbon, Spark, Morgan, Grace Paley, Yeats, Atwood.
This anthology of Ali Smith's favourite writings by other authors was the only book I took with me on a month of walking in Tuscany some years ago. I trusted Smith's tastes and was happy to reread when I got to the end.