WINTER

u003cpu003eu003cbu003eA 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/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e The world shrinks; the sap sinks.u003cbru003e But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e In Ali Smith's u003ciu003eWinteru003c/iu003e, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational u003ciu003eAutumnu003c/iu003e, Smith casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e It's the season that teaches us survival.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Here comes Winter.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eDiscover all four instalments: u003ciu003eAutumn, Winter, Springu003c/iu003e and u003ciu003eSummer.u003c/iu003e Ali Smith's new novel, u003ciu003eCompanion piece,u003c/iu003e is available to pre-order now.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e *****u003cbru003e u003cbru003e 'Dazzling . . . Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen' u003cbu003eu003ciu003eDaily Telegraphu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e 'Graceful, mischievous, joyful . . . Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness and hope' u003cbu003eu003ciu003eIndependentu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003eu003c/bu003e 'A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit . . . Luminously beautiful' u003cbu003eu003ciu003eObserveru003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003c/pu003e