Ali Smith Autumn

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Description

Discover Ali Smith's dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right now

All four instalments of the quartet are available to buy and read in paperback now: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017.

Chosen by the Guardian as one of the Best Books of the 21st Century.

Sunday Times top ten seller.

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to Be Both.

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 . . .

About the Author

Ali Smith CBE FRSL is a Scottish writer. She was born to working-class parents, raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge.

She studied at the University of Aberdeen and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, for a PhD that she never finished. She worked as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde until she fell ill with CFS/ME. Following this she became a full-time writer and now writes for The Guardian, The Scotsman, and the Times Literary Supplement. Openly gay, she lives in Cambridge with her partner filmmaker Sarah Wood.

In 2007 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2009, she donated the short story Last (previously published in the Manchester Review Online) to Oxfams Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the Fire collection.

Smith was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to literature.

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