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HAMISH HAMILTON

an imprint of Penguin Canada,

a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited Canada • USA • UK • Ireland • Australia •

New Zealand • India • South Africa • China

First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, Ltd.

Published in Hamish Hamilton hardcover by Penguin Canada, 2022

Simultaneously published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC

Copyright © 2022 by Ali Smith

All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

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Publisher’s note: This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

Title: Companion piece / Ali Smith.

Names: Smith, Ali, 1962- author.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210307625 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210307641 |

ISBN 9780735243187 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780735243194 (HTML) Classification: LCC PR6069.M4213 C66 2022 | DDC 823/.914—dc23

Cover image by Max5799/iStock/Getty Images

Cover design by Oliver Munday

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