Autumn
£8.99
Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art – via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery – ‘Autumn’ is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.
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.
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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
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