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Autumn
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  • Published: 7 September 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241973318
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $28.00

Autumn

SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017

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7 Sept 2017
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20 Oct 2016
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'The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn... Expansive, shape-shifting, at once more stringent and more consoling than anything I've read this year' Olivia Laing, Observer

Autumn 2016: Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK 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.
Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world filling up with borders, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. From Shakespearian jeu d'esprit, via Keatsian melancholy and the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop Art, this first in a quartet of novels casts an eye over our own time, asking who we are, where we are, right now.
Here is time, ever-changing, ever cyclical. Here comes Autumn.
  • Published: 7 September 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241973318
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

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Praise for Autumn

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

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

Fantastic writing, big ideas and generosity of spirit

Spectator

[Ali Smith] is Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting - and I can't wait for her new book

Sebastian Barry, Observer

Humour, grace, solace...A light-footed meditation on mortality, mutability and how to keep your head in troubled times

Guardian, Best Fiction 2016

Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities

Guardian

[Ali Smith] is simply incapable of writing a dull paragraph

New Statesman

Bold and brilliant, dealing with the body blow of Brexit to offer us something rare: hope.

Jackie Kay, poet

The book I'd like to receive for Christmas: Ali Smith's Autumn.

Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

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.

Olivia Laing, Observer

Ever-inventive...Autumn is the first serious Brexit novel...In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians.

Financial Times, Books of the Year