As always beautifully written.
Smith never disappoints.
A dystopian tale set in the not so far future. With two excellent young characters at the forefront of the story.
I can't say everything was crystal clear for me by the end, so pleased to see there's a second book.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the arc.

When everything feels eerily familiar but also extremely unfamiliar in what can only be described as baffling, that is Ali Smith’s writing. I went into this not realising that it was somewhat dystopian, which I think added to the surrealism. If you want to feel disoriented but lose yourself in what can only be described as literary art then read Gliff. Nevertheless, like with a lot of her work, I spend so much of the book trying to figure out what is actually going on and what is meaningful and meaningless (woah, that reflects some of this book’s themes!) that it can be a bit of a headache. Despite that, there is just something so unique and beautiful about everything she writes, including this!