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|title=There but for the

|author=Ali Smith

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9780241143407

|pages=384

|publisher=Hamish Hamilton

|date=June 2011

|summary=Unashamedly literary in style, Smith gives us a playful and pun-filled feast of word play set around a man who locks himself in a spare room while attending a dinner party. Intelligent, clever and often funny, it's also sometimes difficult to work out where it is heading.

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This is one of two strongly literary contenders in this year's Orange Prize long-list, the other being [[The Blue Book by A L Kennedy]]. Both are worthy short list contenders.

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