Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 06/08/2020
ISBN: 9780241207062
Length: 400 Pages
Dimensions: 222mm x 36mm x 144mm
Weight: 514g
RRP: £16.99
'Summer by Ali Smith is exquisite. Smith is in a class of her own and the culmination of her remarkable seasonal quartet proves it.' Nicola Sturgeon
2020 Book of the Year according to The Spectator, TLS, New Statesman and the FT
The unmissable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer
LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE
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.
'The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force that captures the nation's psyche exquisitely' Evening Standard
'An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet' Irish Times
'A maestra's portrait of her age . . . remarkable' Guardian
Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 06/08/2020
ISBN: 9780241207062
Length: 400 Pages
Dimensions: 222mm x 36mm x 144mm
Weight: 514g
RRP: £16.99
An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet
The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force that captures the nation's psyche exquisitely
This singular writer has found her moment
A maestra's portrait of her age. . . remarkable
Few writers today can make a more compelling claim to singularity of innovation and sustained brilliance
The bravura performance of a writer, poised at the edge of the day's vast darkness, gathering all the warmth and light of our inner summer
Smith bring[s] this brilliant quartet to a satisfying close
The final flourish of a mazy and beautiful quartet
Sublime
Brilliant