Girl meets boy. It?s a story as old as time. But in Whitbread winner Ali Smith?s lyrical, funny, mash-up of Ovid?s most joyful gender-bending metamorphosis story, girl meets boy in so many more ways than one. Imogen and Anthea, sisters that are opposites, work together at Pure, a creative agency attempting to ?bottle imagination, politics, and nature? in the form of a new Scottish bottled-water business with global aspirations. Anthea, somewhat flighty and bored with the office environment, becomes enamored of an ?interventionist protest artist? nicknamed Iphisol, whose billboard-size corporate slurs around town are the bane of Pure?s existence. And when Anthea and Iphisol meet, it?s a match made in heaven. Girl Meets Boy is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, the absurdity of consumerism, as well as a story of reversals and revelations that?s as sharply witty as it is lyrical. Funny, fresh, poetic, and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for a world made in Madison Avenue?s image, and the funniest addition to The Myths series from Canongate since The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.