Summer

A remarkable experiment with timeliness in fiction

Literary Review

The novel's hopeful message about the healing power of friendship ensures the quartet ends on a feel-good note

Sunday Times

This singular writer has found her moment

Prospect

The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force that captures the nation's psyche exquisitely

Evening Standard

An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet

Evening Standard

A maestra's portrait of her age. . . remarkable

Guardian

Few writers today can make a more compelling claim to singularity of innovation and sustained brilliance

TLS

The bravura performance of a writer, poised at the edge of the day's vast darkness, gathering all the warmth and light of our inner summer

The Washington Post

Smith bring[s] this brilliant quartet to a satisfying close

NPR

The final flourish of a mazy and beautiful quartet

Telegraph

Sublime

The Boston Globe

Brilliant

The Scotsman