Autumn

'The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn... Expansive, shape-shifting, at once more stringent and more consoling than anything I've read this year' Olivia Laing, ObserverAutumn 2016- Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever.Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world filling up with borders, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. From Shakespearian jeu d'esprit, via Keatsian melancholy and the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop Art, this first in a quartet of novels casts an eye over our own time, asking who we are, where we are, right now.Here is time, ever-changing, ever cyclical. Here comes Autumn.

“Publisher's description. Autumn 2016: the UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. The seasons roll round as ever. From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting, light-footed, time-travelling novel. This is a story about right now, this minute; about ageing and time and love and stories themselves. Here comes Autumn.”

I love Ali Smith's writing, and I've been keeping Autumn for an end-of-book holiday treat Val McDermid, 'The Observer'
In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians Financial Times
Bold and brilliant, dealing with the body blow of Brexit to offer us something rare: hope Jackie Kay
Humour, grace, solace...A light-footed meditation on mortality, mutability and how to keep your head in troubled times The Guardian
Transcendental writing about art, death and all the dimensions of love. It's not so much 'reading between the lines' as being blinded by the light between the lines - in a good way Deborah Levy
The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn, which managed the miracle of making at least a kind of sense out of post-Brexit Britain The Observer
Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities The Guardian
Experimental, thematically complex, associative, time-juggling, powered by a crazed and energetic curiosity Sunday Times
Pure literary magic Mail on Sunday
Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting. Long may she Remain that way The Times

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . . 'A beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities' Guardian 'Bravura, brilliant and unsettling . . . leaving you marvelling' Financial Times 'Fantastic' Spectator 'A terrific writer. There is an awful lot to lift the soul, not least Smith's extraordinary playful use of language' Daily Mail 'Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting' The Times 'Bold and brilliant' Observer 'Smith straddles the elegiac and the celebratory through this glorious novel' Scotsman

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