ISBN Summer book General novel English Paperback 400 pages

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021
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.
'A maestra's portrait of her age . . . remarkable'Guardian
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert justistrouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.
This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?
Summer.
Discover all four instalments:Autumn, Winter, SpringandSummer.Ali Smith's new novel,Companion piece,is available now.
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'The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force'
Evening Standard
'Exquisite. Smith is in a class of her own'
Nicola Sturgeon
'An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet'
Irish Times