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
