Autumn : SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017

Author: Smith, Ali

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 31 August 2017 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of the Seasonal Quartet series.

Paperback | 272 pages
129 x 196 x 18 | 194g

SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smiths 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 . . .

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*****ONE OF THE GUARDIANS BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting The TimesBold and brilliant ObserverTerrific, extraordinary, playful . . . There is an awful lot to lift the soul Daily Mail