{"product_id":"gliff-by-ali-smith-3","title":"Glyph by Ali Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGhosts don't exist. They don't. End of.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStory, however. It is haunting. Everything tells it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom. What to do? She phones her sister.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a chiaroscuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if we’re attending to the history that’s made us and to the history we’re making. A funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, Glyph is about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness. This anti-war novel, Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA standalone novel, it’s family to Gliff (2024)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardback \/ 268 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57745086677373,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/Glyph.jpg?v=1769531799","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.co.uk\/products\/gliff-by-ali-smith-3","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}