Summer (Seasonal Quartet #4)

**WINNER 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**
' **Exquisite. Smith is in a class of her own' Nicola Sturgeon**
In 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.
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.
**ALL FOUR INSTALMENTS OF THE QUARTET ARE AVAILABLE TO READ IN EBOOK NOW: AUTUMN, WINTER, SPRING AND SUMMER.**
**'The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force that captures the nation's psyche exquisitely' *Evening Standard***
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'An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet' *Irish Times***
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*' *A maestra's portrait of her age . . . remarkable'* Guardian***