{"product_id":"summer-hb-uk","title":"Ali Smith: SUMMER UK [2020] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER of THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED for THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 and the HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 Book of the Year according to the \u003ci\u003eSpectator, TLS, New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover Ali Smith's dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a tour-de-force cycle of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right now\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll four instalments of the quartet are available to buy and read in paperback and ebook now: \u003ci\u003eAutumn, Winter, Spring \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSummer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eExquisite. Smith is in a class of her own' Nicola Sturgeon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble.  Her brother Robert just \u003ci\u003eis \u003c\/i\u003etrouble.  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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSummer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The first great coronavirus novel - a book to savour, a literary tour de force that captures the nation's psyche exquisitely' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An astonishing finale to a prescient series . . . Ali Smith brilliantly weaves strands of joy and celebration to end her Seasonal Quartet' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eA maestra's portrait of her age . . . remarkable' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smith, Ali","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44236516753698,"sku":"9780241207062","price":22.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/smith-ali-ali-smith-summer-uk-2020-hardback-9780241207062-58585483936083.jpg?v=1727769367","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/summer-hb-uk","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}