Discover the Penguin books that shaped us

Autumn

byAli Smith

SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017

Format:

PaperbackEbookAudio Download

Buy the book from:

AmazonOpens in a new tabBlackwellsOpens in a new tabBookshop.orgOpens in a new tabFoylesOpens in a new tabHiveOpens in a new tabWaterstonesOpens in a new tabWHSmithOpens in a new tab
Autumn 2016: Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK 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.
Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world filling up with borders, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. From Shakespearian jeu d'esprit, via Keatsian melancholy and the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop Art, this first in a quartet of novels casts an eye over our own time, asking who we are, where we are, right now.
Here is time, ever-changing, ever cyclical. Here comes Autumn.

I love Ali Smith's writing, and I've been keeping Autumn for an end-of-book holiday treat

Val McDermid, 'The Observer'

About Ali Smith

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.
Details
  • Series: Seasonal Quartet #1
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241973318
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 192g
  • Price: £9.99
All editions