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This novel by Smith is loosely based on Ovid's story "Iphis and Ianthe" from his Metamorphoses. It is about two sisters, Anthea and Imogen, who live in a small Scottish town in their grandparents house. Their grandparents disappeared while sailing Europe and left the house to the girls. The novel begins with a memory of their grandfather telling them a story which begins, "Let me tell you about when I was a girl," which brings squeals of delight and giggles from the little girls sitting in his lap. So it begins happily enough but we soon find out there is trouble in paradise.

Both girls work for a corporation called Pure, a bottled water company, which is not all that it seems. While Imogen is moving her way up the corporate ladder, Anthea is unhappy at work and feels out of place. Then one day Anthea is looking out of the window at work and sees what she thinks is a young man in a kilt writing graffiti about Pure on Pure's walls and signing his work Iphis. Anthea is intrigued so she rushes out of the office to check it out. Upon getting close to this stranger, Anthea thinks: "He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he looked really like a girl." It turns out to be a girl, a girl named Robin, who had gone to school with the sisters and Imogen remembers her as being weird even then. But soon Robin and Anthea begin a guerilla warfare type of campaign against Pure and start posting their messages all over town.

Meanwhile Imogen get a promotion for a creative idea she has and is sent to Pure's base camp to meet with the boss, Keith, who turns out to be an evil mastermind after world dominance. This totally turns Imogen around about the corporation and what she is doing with her life. Without telling everything about the novel I will stop here and let you read it for yourself. It is a delightful little novel and not at all like most of the stories in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" as it is much too lighthearted for that. Imogen, Anthea, and Robin are all delightfully delicious characters who you will fall in love with.


Tags : Girl Meets Boy (Myths) [Ali Smith] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. 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 is about girls and boys,Ali Smith,Girl Meets Boy (Myths),Canongate Books Ltd,1841958697,Fiction General,General & Literary Fiction,Modern & contemporary fiction,Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Girl Meets Boy Myths Ali Smith 9781841958699 Books Reviews

Amazing book and fantastic writing by Smith. Her novels is well written and truly lovely and captivating to read. The whole series of books are an amazing undertaking. I enjoyed and recommend this book to people who appreciate good writing and plot
One of my favorite books. Ali Smith is a fantastic writer.
Good condition.
Great book in the Myths series. Challenge of political correctness, sexual curiouisty, fantacy all I a modern day myth. Fun!
Daughter loves it!
A good enough book, but not one that moved me in a life-changing way. Smith doesn't quite pull off the abstractions where she wanders into the Iphsis myth, but I respect her for making the effort to do something that you don't find in every lesbian love story you come across.
I’m currently on an Ali Smith binge, and this slim volume strikes me as a quickie quickly written, quickly read. It’s an amusing retelling of the myth, remarkably joyful. The best section comes near the end, where Smith is at full stream-of-consciousness describing a wedding.
This novel by Smith is loosely based on Ovid's story "Iphis and Ianthe" from his Metamorphoses. It is about two sisters, Anthea and Imogen, who live in a small Scottish town in their grandparents house. Their grandparents disappeared while sailing Europe and left the house to the girls. The novel begins with a memory of their grandfather telling them a story which begins, "Let me tell you about when I was a girl," which brings squeals of delight and giggles from the little girls sitting in his lap. So it begins happily enough but we soon find out there is trouble in paradise.

Both girls work for a corporation called Pure, a bottled water company, which is not all that it seems. While Imogen is moving her way up the corporate ladder, Anthea is unhappy at work and feels out of place. Then one day Anthea is looking out of the window at work and sees what she thinks is a young man in a kilt writing graffiti about Pure on Pure's walls and signing his work Iphis. Anthea is intrigued so she rushes out of the office to check it out. Upon getting close to this stranger, Anthea thinks "He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he looked really like a girl." It turns out to be a girl, a girl named Robin, who had gone to school with the sisters and Imogen remembers her as being weird even then. But soon Robin and Anthea begin a guerilla warfare type of campaign against Pure and start posting their messages all over town.

Meanwhile Imogen get a promotion for a creative idea she has and is sent to Pure's base camp to meet with the boss, Keith, who turns out to be an evil mastermind after world dominance. This totally turns Imogen around about the corporation and what she is doing with her life. Without telling everything about the novel I will stop here and let you read it for yourself. It is a delightful little novel and not at all like most of the stories in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" as it is much too lighthearted for that. Imogen, Anthea, and Robin are all delightfully delicious characters who you will fall in love with.