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

A wonderfully risky project...an ambitious, multi-layered creation...an energising and uplifting story

The Daily Telegraph

A moving exploration of the intricacies of the imagination, a sly teasing-out of a host of big ideas and small revelations, all hovering around a timeless quandary: how to observe, how to be

The New York Times

I wonder: How does she manage to so wonderfully weave in and out of time, to layer time, while creating something that feels like it was written this morning after she read today's newspaper?

PBS News Hour

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.

Penguin

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

Fantastic writing, big ideas and generosity of spirit

Spectator

[Ali Smith] is Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting - and I can't wait for her new book

Sebastian Barry, Observer

Humour, grace, solace...A light-footed meditation on mortality, mutability and how to keep your head in troubled times

Guardian, Best Fiction 2016

Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities

Guardian

[Ali Smith] is simply incapable of writing a dull paragraph

New Statesman

Bold and brilliant, dealing with the body blow of Brexit to offer us something rare: hope.

Jackie Kay, poet

The book I'd like to receive for Christmas: Ali Smith's Autumn.

Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

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.

Olivia Laing, Observer

Ever-inventive...Autumn is the first serious Brexit novel...In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians.

Financial Times, Books of the Year