{"product_id":"summer-pb-w2-1","title":"Ali Smith: SUMMER W2 [2021] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021\u003cbr\u003e LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA 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\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eExquisite. Smith is in a class of her own' Nicola Sturgeon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 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\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Summer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eALL FOUR INSTALMENTS OF THE QUARTET ARE AVAILABLE TO READ IN EBOOK NOW: AUTUMN, WINTER, SPRING AND SUMMER.\u003c\/b\u003e\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":44253570695458,"sku":"9780241973370","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48110315143507,"sku":"XV80241973370","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":47656184512851,"sku":"XE80241973370","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/smith-ali-ali-smith-summer-w2-2021-paperback-55784093286739.jpg?v=1714836912","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/summer-pb-w2-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}