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 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
