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*
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