{"product_id":"spring-10","title":"Spring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER\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 quartet 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\u003e''Her best book yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and the present with a chorus of voices'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''An astonishing accomplishment and a book for all seasons'' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''\u003c\/i\u003eState-of-the-nation novels which understand that the nation is you, is me, is all of us'' \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Smith tells stories in a voice you can''t help but listen to'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpring. The great connective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare''s most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time.  In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe time we''re living in is changing nature.  Will it change the nature of story?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHope springs eternal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Seasonal Quartet:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Transcendental writing about art, death, political lies, and all the dimensions of love\u003c\/b\u003e. It''s a case not so much of reading between the lines as of being blinded by the light between the lines - in a good way'' Deborah Levy on \u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The novel of the year is obviously \u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, which managed the miracle of making at least a kind of sense out of post-Brexit Britain'' Olivia Laing, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Ali Smith is flat-out brilliant, and she''s on fire these days...\u003c\/b\u003e Combining brainy playfulness with depth, topicality with timelessness, and complexity with accessibility while delivering an impassioned defence of human decency and art'' \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eWinter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Rank[s] among \u003cb\u003ethe most original, consoling and inspiring \u003c\/b\u003eof the artistic responses to ''this mad and bitter mess'' of the present'' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eWinter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A novel of \u003cb\u003egreat ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit\u003c\/b\u003e that you feel Dickens would have recognised... Smith is engaged in an extended process of mythologizing the present states of Britain... \u003cb\u003eLuminously beautiful''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eWinter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319303086462,"sku":"NW9780241207048","price":14.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241207048.jpg?v=1778696612","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/spring-10","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}