When we meet Amy Shone, she is a young parent struggling to raise Kate, a precocious eight-year-old. Amy is an enigma—a brilliant scholar who has forgotten how to read. She is estranged from her wealthy English parents and lives a nomadic life in Scotland, dragging Kate from one school to the next, barely scraping by. And then there is Ash, a fiery Scottish actress who cannot shake her demons—chief among them an unrequited passion for Amy that has obsessed her ever since they met as teenagers. Like is the story of two parallel lives that intersect briefly, then diverge. It is also a timeless evocation of adolescence and its agonizing anticipations, its contradictory yearnings for freedom and safety, its blind quest for mastery over pleasure and pain.
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Ali Smith
Nascida no seio de uma família de classe-média de Inverness, vive hoje em Cambridge. Estudou em Aberdeen e, mais tarde em Cambridge, onde nunca chegou a concluir o doutoramento. Numa entrevista de 2004 à revista Mslexia, falou do seu sofrimento devido ao síndroma de fadiga crónico e de como tinha deixado de leccionar na Universidade de Strathclyde para se focar naquilo que realmente gostava: escrever. Abertamente homossexual, vive com a sua parceira Sarah Wood há cerca de 20 anos.
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