Product Description
Autumn
Author: Ali Smith
Format: Paperback
Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2017
A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now.
'Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting' — The Times
Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer.
Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . .
Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now.
One of the Guardian's Best Books of the 21ST Century
'Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting' — The Times
'Bold and brilliant' — Observer
'Terrific, extraordinary, playful . . . There is an awful lot to lift the soul' — Daily Mail
About the Author
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
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