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The fourth novel in the Seasonal Quartet by Man Booker Prize Finalist Ali Smith is “a prose poem in praise of memory, forgiveness, getting the joke, and seizing the moment” (The New York Times).
In the present, Sacha knows the world’s in trouble. Her brother Robert just istrouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world’s in meltdown—and the real meltdown hasn’t even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they’re living on borrowed time.
This is a story about people on the brink of change. They’re family, but they think they’re strangers. So: Where does family begin? And what do people who think they’ve got nothing in common have in common?
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"Sublime. … Smith has completed what must be considered both one of modern fiction’s most elusive and most important undertakings. … No novelist has come closer to describing the particular sad informed madness of our times.”—Boston Globe
A Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews • Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction
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“A novel that is wonderfully entertaining—for its humor, allusions, deft use of time and memory, sharply realized characters, and delightfully relevant digressions—and a reminder, brought home by the pandemic, that everything and everyone truly is connected and the sufferance of suffering hurts us all.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“A prose poem in praise of memory, forgiveness, getting the joke, and seizing the moment.”
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“Stunning…There could be no more nourishing read for this summer of our discontent.”
— Sunday Times (London)
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
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A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
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About Ali Smith
Ali Smith is the author of many works of fiction, which won many awards, including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Her work has four times been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
About Juliette Burton
Helen Fisher spent her early life in America but grew up mainly in Suffolk, England, where she now lives. She studied psychology at Westminster University and ergonomics at University College London, and she worked as a senior evaluator in research at the Royal National Institute of Blind People.