2022/008: Spring -- Ali Smith

2022/008: Spring -- Ali Smith

What’s lucky about having a favourite way to die? Brit said.
If you don’t know how lucky you are to be even discussing the chance of a choice, the girl said, then all I can say is, you’re really really lucky. [loc. 1738]

Richard Lease, a TV director with a string of successful productions in his past but a bleak project looming, takes a train north from London on a whim. He's mourning the recent death of his friend, artistic collaborator and occasional lover Paddy (short for Patricia), and perhaps also the death of his own creativity. Ending up in Kingussie, he teeters on the brink of despair. And then comes salvation in the unlikely form of a young girl named Florence.

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