Autumn (Seasonal Quartet 1)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER

`In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians` - Financial Times

`Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant, angry, but comforting` The Times `A beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities... The first post-Brexit novel` - Guardian

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Daniel is a century old.

Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, 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...

`Terrific, extraordinary, playful... There is an awful lot to lift the soul` - Daily Mail

`Bold and brilliant` - Observer