What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d’esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art: the centuries cast their eyes over our own history making. It is the first instalment of her Seasonal quartet–four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are)–and it casts an eye over our own time. The seasons roll round, as ever.Īli Smith’s new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer.Love is won, love is lost. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. That’s what it felt like for Keats in 1819. Publication date: 20th October 2016 by Hamish Hamiltonįormat: Hardcover purchased from Waterstone’sĪutumn.
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