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Long-listed, International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award, 2011

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand-new set of circumstances?

Ali Smith's remix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world.

The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.

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An interesting book. I find listening to a book rather than reading easier. Personally I loved the reading they sounded beautiful and I felt it was well read. Personally it’s not my sort of book. But it’s a good interesting read.

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The narration spoiled my enjoyment of the book. It was very distracting and sounded as if it was being read by a young teenager, in a very clipped and jerky fashion.
All emotions and circumstances were delivered in the same, almost robotic, voice.

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