num_pages: 149
description: A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in "Free Love" are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity, and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, and love in unexpected places. Ali Smith shows how things come together and how they break apart. She disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live differently.
language: English
title: Free Love and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Free Love and Other Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Queer, LGBT, British Literature, School, Contemporary, Short Story Collection, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 775
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Saltire Society Literary Award
category: Scottish First Book of the Year
publisher: Virago Press Ltd