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 . . .
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
I love Ali Smith's writing, and I've been keeping Autumn for an
end-of-book holiday treat
*Val McDermid, 'The Observer'*
In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as
Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians
*Financial Times*
Bold and brilliant, dealing with the body blow of Brexit to offer
us something rare: hope
*Jackie Kay*
Humour, grace, solace...A light-footed meditation on mortality,
mutability and how to keep your head in troubled times
*The Guardian*
Transcendental writing about art, death and all the dimensions of
love. It's not so much 'reading between the lines' as being blinded
by the light between the lines - in a good way
*Deborah Levy*
The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn, which
managed the miracle of making at least a kind of sense out of
post-Brexit Britain
*The Observer*
Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and
transient realities
*The Guardian*
Experimental, thematically complex, associative, time-juggling,
powered by a crazed and energetic curiosity
*Sunday Times*
Pure literary magic
*Mail on Sunday*
Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting. Long may she Remain
that way
*The Times*
A wonderfully risky project...an ambitious, multi-layered
creation...an energising and uplifting story
*The Daily Telegraph*
A moving exploration of the intricacies of the imagination, a sly
teasing-out of a host of big ideas and small revelations, all
hovering around a timeless quandary: how to observe, how to be
*The New York Times*
I wonder: How does she manage to so wonderfully weave in and out of
time, to layer time, while creating something that feels like it
was written this morning after she read today's newspaper?
*PBS News Hour*
Publisher's description. Autumn 2016: the UK is in pieces, divided
by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is
lost. The seasons roll round as ever. From the imagination of the
peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting, light-footed,
time-travelling novel. This is a story about right now, this
minute; about ageing and time and love and stories themselves. Here
comes Autumn.
*Penguin*
Transcendental writing about art, death and all the dimensions of
love. It's not so much 'reading between the lines' as being blinded
by the light between the lines - in a good way
*Deborah Levy*
The book I'd like to receive for Christmas: Ali Smith's Autumn.
*Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train*
Fantastic writing, big ideas and generosity of spirit
*Spectator*
[Ali Smith] is Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting - and I can't
wait for her new book
*Sebastian Barry, Observer*
Humour, grace, solace...A light-footed meditation on mortality,
mutability and how to keep your head in troubled times
*Guardian, Best Fiction 2016*
Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and
transient realities
*Guardian*
[Ali Smith] is simply incapable of writing a dull paragraph
*New Statesman*
Bold and brilliant, dealing with the body blow of Brexit to offer
us something rare: hope.
*Jackie Kay, poet*
The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn, which
managed the miracle of making at least a kind of sense out of
post-Brexit Britain.
*Olivia Laing, Observer*
Ever-inventive...Autumn is the first serious Brexit novel...In a
country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith
is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians.
*Financial Times, Books of the Year*
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