Autumn

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The first novel in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love—and stories themselves. Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends—Daniel a centenarian and Elisabeth born in 1984—look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands 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. A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d’esprit Keatsian melancholy the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Autumn is wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories.