At a dinner party, one of the guests, a stranger to the hosts, locks himself into the spare room and refuses to come out. The effect of his actions ripples out to affect the people whose lives have intersected his and even to those whose haven't. It's a strange topic so I was wondering what this would be like but the book hooked me very quickly. Ali Smith's likeable and human characters are somehow heart-warming. I was left wondering though, why Miles, who seems like such a likeable chap, has no close friends or family to come forwards. I think there's some allegory going on there but I'm not quite sure what.

Left on a walk on a snowy day.

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