Autumn

Sunday Times top ten bestseller

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2017

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

'Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting.' The Times

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...

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

Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now.

One of the Guardian's best books of the 21st century

'Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting.' The Times

'Bold and brilliant.' Observer

'Terrific, extraordinary, playful... There is an awful lot to lift the soul.' Daily Mail