Spring

SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smiths Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now.

Her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voicesObserver

What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?

Spring. The great connective.

With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeares most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door.

The time were living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story?

Hope springs eternal.

Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smiths new novel, Companion piece, is available now.

*****

An astonishing accomplishment and a book for all seasonsIndependent

Smith is a masterful storyteller . . . Savour itEvening Standard

Infectious in its energy and warmthDaily Telegraph