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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE 2021

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.

A maestra s portrait of her age . . . remarkable Guardian

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.

Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith s new novel, Companion piece, is available to pre-order now.

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The first great coronavirus novel – a book to savour, a literary tour de force Evening Standard

Exquisite. Smith is in a class of her own Nicola Sturgeon

An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet Irish Times