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Summer : Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 Paperback / softback

by Ali Smith

Part of the Seasonal Quartet series

Paperback / softback

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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' GuardianIn 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 now. *****'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