The first volume of a shape-shifting seasonal quartet from Ali Smith about our time, past time, ageing, love and stories themselves.
In this masterful and exuberant novel, Scottish author Ali Smith brings to life five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives.
Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. Through her characters’ various stories and voices, Ali Smith delivers a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one's shoe…
Ali Smith
About the Author
Ali Smith was born in Inverness, Scotland. She is the author of several critically acclaimed and award-winning novels and short stories.Other nominated books by Ali Smith
Ali Smith’s highly original literary double-take is a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions.
Ali Smith’s inventive portrayal of a family unravelled by a mysterious visitor. Who is Amber? And why has she joined the Smarts on holiday?
