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From one of Britain's young fiction writers comes this haunting novel - a seductive story of what it means to be alive at the edge of the 20th century.There's Amy and there's Ash. There's ice and there's fire. There's England and there's Scotland.; Ali Smith evokes the twin spirits of time and place in an extraordinarily powerful first novel, which teases out the connections between people, the attractions, the ghostly repercussions.; By turns funny, haunting and disconcertingly moving, LIKE soars across hidden borders between cultures, countries, families, friends and lovers. Subtle and complex, it confounds expectations about fiction and truths.; 'Ingenious, shimmering fiction, written with a poetic grace that subtly illuminates the tensions between hope and desire, between past and present' Scotland on Sunday