- Published: 20 October 2016
- ISBN: 9780241973301
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
Autumn
SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
- Published: 20 October 2016
- ISBN: 9780241973301
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
I love Ali Smith's writing, and I've been keeping Autumn for an end-of-book holiday treat
Val McDermid, 'The Observer'
In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians
Financial Times
Bold and brilliant, dealing with the body blow of Brexit to offer us something rare: hope
Jackie Kay
Humour, grace, solace...A light-footed meditation on mortality, mutability and how to keep your head in troubled times
The Guardian
Transcendental writing about art, death and all the dimensions of love. It's not so much 'reading between the lines' as being blinded by the light between the lines - in a good way
Deborah Levy
The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn, which managed the miracle of making at least a kind of sense out of post-Brexit Britain
The Observer
Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities
The Guardian
Experimental, thematically complex, associative, time-juggling, powered by a crazed and energetic curiosity
Sunday Times
Pure literary magic
Mail on Sunday
Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting. Long may she Remain that way
The Times
A wonderfully risky project...an ambitious, multi-layered creation...an energising and uplifting story
The Daily Telegraph
A moving exploration of the intricacies of the imagination, a sly teasing-out of a host of big ideas and small revelations, all hovering around a timeless quandary: how to observe, how to be
The New York Times
I wonder: How does she manage to so wonderfully weave in and out of time, to layer time, while creating something that feels like it was written this morning after she read today's newspaper?
PBS News Hour
Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities
The Guardian
Fantastic writing, big ideas and generosity of spirit
Cressida Connolly
Publisher's description. Autumn 2016: the UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. The seasons roll round as ever. From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting, light-footed, time-travelling novel. This is a story about right now, this minute; about ageing and time and love and stories themselves. Here comes Autumn.
Penguin
She is, of course, Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting
Observer
The first serious Brexit novel
Financial Times
Transcendental writing about art, death, political lies, trees and all the dimensions of love
Deborah Levy
Unbearably moving, shrewd and dreamy, playful, strange [and] soulful...[An] assessment of what it means to be alive...Ali Smith has a beautiful mind and where her mind goes, you want to follow...I am struck by, and stuck on, Autumn.
New York Times