\'Dazzling.
Here comes Winter..
It\'s the season that teaches us survival.
In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith\'s shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter.
In Ali Smith\'s Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons.
And if there\'s ice, there\'ll be fire.
But Winter makes things visible.
The world shrinks; the sap sinks.
The summer\'s leaves? Dead litter.
The trees are bare and shivering.
The shortest days, the longest nights.
Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes.
The unmissable second novel in Ali Smith\'s acclaimed \'Seasonal\' quartet Winter? Bleak.
Grief and pain are transfigured by luminous moments of humour, insight and connection...
Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen\' Daily Telegraph\'Graceful, mischievous, joyful...
Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness and hope\' Independent\'A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit...
Luminously beautiful\' ObserverFrom the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be both... \'Dazzling
