{"product_id":"9780241973370","title":"Summer : Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Ali Smith\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 6 May 2021 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Seasonal Quartet' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 400 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 196 x 30mm | 286g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A maestra's portrait of her age . . . remarkable' GuardianIn the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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? Summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith's new novel, Companion piece, is available now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*****'The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force' Evening Standard'Exquisite. Smith is in a class of her own' Nicola Sturgeon 'An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet' Irish Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57548679610693,"sku":"9780241973370","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780241973370.jpg?v=1774887264","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780241973370","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}