Summer

Summer brother autumn sister Time and time again are gone Out of season I will find her With time’s fallen leaves behind her Every time I sing this song Summer uses the characters of Autumn and Winter to explore the themes of Spring (while also making it clear that those themes ran through the full q......more

Summer. A season that stretches out like a cat in the sun as the long days and warm nights seem to open us up to infinite possibilities and instills us with ‘that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again,’ such as F. Scott Fitzgerald writes in The Great Gatsby. And with summer, I have......more

season by season, i spent a year with this series. it feels like everyone should be rationed out a perfectly weather-appropriate read every few months. and i for one can't quite believe it's over! this series went off the rails of why i loved it for a bit, but in this one it was capital B Back, with l......more

The timely publishing gimmick of this quartet badly backfired when the pandemic arrived. You can imagine the scenario: Smith only has a few weeks before the book needs to be delivered and suddenly life as we've always known it dramatically changes. How can you write a series of novels about the stat......more

What a strange, tumultuous journey it's been over the past four years, but I'm so grateful that I've had Ali Smith's Seasonal novels by my side! Who could have predicted the many unsettling transformations that would take place in our social and political landscape when she began this ambitious writ......more