Gliff (Paperback)

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Not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint drawn around the outside of their house. The mark is fresh, deliberate, hard to explain, and it changes the shape of what home feels like.

From that moment, Ali Smith’s novel moves with urgency. Two young people, and a horse called Gliff, are set on the run, carried forward by events they did not choose. History, close enough to touch, begins to turn for the worse, and the world around them grows less reliable, more charged.

The story is freewheeling in its movement and tone, alert to what it means to be young in a time that is shifting underfoot. It follows them as they try to keep going, with the painted line behind them and an uncertain future ahead.