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Summer
  • Published: 2 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241973363
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

Summer

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2 July 2021
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2 July 2020
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The dazzling, unforgettable conclusion to Ali Smith's tour de force, Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet

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.
  • Published: 2 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241973363
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

About the author

Ali Smith

Ali Smith's works of fiction include the novel Hotel World, which was short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Her story collections include Free Love, which won a Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award, The Whole Story and Other Stories, and How to be Both, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in 2015. Born in Inverness, Scotland, Smith lives in Cambridge, England.
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Praise for Summer

A remarkable experiment with timeliness in fiction

Literary Review

The novel's hopeful message about the healing power of friendship ensures the quartet ends on a feel-good note

Sunday Times

This singular writer has found her moment

Prospect

The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force that captures the nation's psyche exquisitely

Evening Standard

An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet

Evening Standard

A maestra's portrait of her age. . . remarkable

Guardian

Few writers today can make a more compelling claim to singularity of innovation and sustained brilliance

TLS

The bravura performance of a writer, poised at the edge of the day's vast darkness, gathering all the warmth and light of our inner summer

The Washington Post

Smith bring[s] this brilliant quartet to a satisfying close

NPR

The final flourish of a mazy and beautiful quartet

Telegraph

Sublime

The Boston Globe

Brilliant

The Scotsman