Winter

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.

Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summers leaves? Dead litter.

The world shrinks; the sap sinks.
But winter makes things visible. And if theres ice, therell be fire.

In Ali Smiths Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter.

Its the season that teaches us survival.

Here comes Winter.

Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer.

*****

Dazzling . . . Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreenDaily Telegraph

Graceful, mischievous, joyful . . . Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness and hopeIndependent

A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit . . . Luminously beautifulObserver