Escape into summer with the crowning glory of Ali Smith's outstanding Seasonal quartet
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. 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.
PRAISE FOR SEASONAL:
'The novel of the year is obviously Autumn' Observer on Autumn
'Masterful... Winter is utterly original' New York Times Book Review on Winter
'Luminous, generous, hope-filled... A dazzling hymn to hope. Ali Smith is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now' Observer on Spring
'Smith's seasonal quartet of novels is a bold and brilliant experiment' Independent
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 06/08/2020
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ISBN: 9780241973363
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Length: 400 Pages
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RRP: £16.99
Reviews
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An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet
Evening Standard
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The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force that captures the nation's psyche exquisitely
Evening Standard
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This singular writer has found her moment
Prospect
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A maestra's portrait of her age. . . remarkable
Guardian
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Few writers today can make a more compelling claim to singularity of innovation and sustained brilliance
TLS
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The bravura performance of a writer, poised at the edge of the day's vast darkness, gathering all the warmth and light of our inner summer
The Washington Post
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Smith bring[s] this brilliant quartet to a satisfying close
NPR
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The final flourish of a mazy and beautiful quartet
Telegraph
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Sublime
The Boston Globe
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Brilliant
The Scotsman
