THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Discover Ali Smith's
dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a
tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics,
and how we live right now All four instalments of the quartet are
available to buy and read in paperback and ebook now: Autumn,
Winter, Spring and Summer 'Her best book yet, a dazzling hymn to
hope, uniting the past and the present with a chorus of voices'
Observer 'An astonishing accomplishment and a book for all seasons'
Independent 'State-of-the-nation novels which understand that the
nation is you, is me, is all of us' New Statesman 'Smith tells
stories in a voice you can't help but listen to' The Times What
unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke,
Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the
east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in
modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the
migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of
Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells
the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and
lockdown Smith opens the door. The time we're living in is changing
nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs eternal.
LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2019 Praise for the Seasonal
Quartet: 'Transcendental writing about art, death, political lies,
and all the dimensions of love. It's a case not so much of reading
between the lines as of being blinded by the light between the
lines - in a good way' Deborah Levy on Autumn 'The novel of the
year is obviously Autumn, which managed the miracle of making at
least a kind of sense out of post-Brexit Britain' Olivia Laing,
Observer on Autumn 'Ali Smith is flat-out brilliant, and she's on
fire these days... Combining brainy playfulness with depth,
topicality with timelessness, and complexity with accessibility
while delivering an impassioned defence of human decency and art'
NPR on Winter 'Rank[s] among the most original, consoling and
inspiring of the artistic responses to 'this mad and bitter mess'
of the present' Financial Times on Winter 'A novel of great
ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit that you feel Dickens
would have recognised... Smith is engaged in an extended process of
mythologizing the present states of Britain... Luminously
beautiful' Observer on Winter
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