From the Man Booker Prize Finalist comes the third novel in her
Seasonal Quartet--a New York Times Notable Book and longlisted for the
Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke,
Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the
east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern
times?
Spring. The great connective.
With an eye to the migrancy of story over time and riffing on
Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works,
Ali Smith tell the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of
walls and lockdown, Smith opens the door.
The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature
of story?
Hope springs eternal.