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  <name><![CDATA[Ali Smith]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Ali Smith is a writer, born in 1962 in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. Openly gay, she has been with her partner Sarah Wood for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her.

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  <title><![CDATA[The Accidental]]></title>
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  <published>2005</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Hotel World]]></title>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis (Canongate Myths)]]></title>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Whole Story and Other Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ali Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.84</average_rating>
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  <published>2003</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Other Stories and Other Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ali Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.25</average_rating>
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  <published>1999</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Like]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ali Smith]]></name>
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  <published>1997</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The First Person: and Other Stories]]></title>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Free Love and Other Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ali Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.16</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>37</ratings_count>
  <published>1995</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s (Pocket Penguin 70's #30)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ali Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.40</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>10</ratings_count>
  <published>2005</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Reader aka The Book Lover]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ali Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.67</average_rating>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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