Girl Meets Boy

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 remix 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, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world.

The Myths series brings together some of the world''s finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.