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Autumn

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241973318

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 193g

  • RRP: £8.99

Autumn

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

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241973318

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 193g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

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

    Val McDermid, 'The Observer'

  • In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians

    Financial Times

  • Bold and brilliant, dealing with the body blow of Brexit to offer us something rare: hope

    Jackie Kay

  • Humour, grace, solace...A light-footed meditation on mortality, mutability and how to keep your head in troubled times

    The Guardian

  • Transcendental writing about art, death and all the dimensions of love. It's not so much 'reading between the lines' as being blinded by the light between the lines - in a good way

    Deborah Levy

  • The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn, which managed the miracle of making at least a kind of sense out of post-Brexit Britain

    The Observer

  • Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities

    The Guardian

  • Experimental, thematically complex, associative, time-juggling, powered by a crazed and energetic curiosity

    Sunday Times

  • Pure literary magic

    Mail on Sunday

  • Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting. Long may she Remain that way

    The Times

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About the Author

Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of Spring, Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, How to be both, Shire, Artful, There but for the, The first person and other stories, Girl Meets Boy, The Accidental, The whole story and other stories, Hotel World, Other stories and other stories, Like and Free Love. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Bailey's Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 and Winter was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2018. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

Ali Smith

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