Girl Meets Boy

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 re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold.It's 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, Girl meets boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.'I love Ali Smith's work.'Jeanette Winterson, The Times'An extremely readable, easy-flowing writer and one of the subtlest and most intelligent around.'Carol Birch, Independent