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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017

SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER

As the days get shorter, the nights darker, and political chaos ever closer, Ali Smith offers solace, wisdom and hope for the future, with this dazzling novel of our times

´In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians´ Financial Times

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

´A beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities... The first post-Brexit novel´ Guardian

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both

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 . . .

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

´Bold and brilliant´ Observer

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I love Ali Smith´s writing, and I´ve been keeping Autumn for an end-of-book holiday treat Val McDermid, ´The Observer´

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Smith, Ali
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of many novels, including most recently Autumn, Winter and Spring in the ´Seasonal´ quartet. Her 2014 novel How to be both won the Baileys Women´s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. She has also been shortlisted once for the Orwell Prize, twice for the Orange Prize and four times for the Man Booker Prize, among many other prizes. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

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