<b>Luminous, generous, hope-filled... </b><b>The third book in Ali Smith's seasonal quartet is her best yet</b>, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices... <b>[Ali Smith] is </b><b>lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now</b>
Observer
<i><b>Is there a writer so critically acclaimed and universally beloved? </b>...Autumn</i>, <i>Winter</i> and <i>Spring </i>are stories of the unlikely connections human beings can make and the cost exacted when those connections are broken. They are state of the nation novels which understand that the nation is you, is me, is all of us: the nation is our choices, our fears, our losses... <b>[Ali Smith] </b><b>is the national novelist we need in 2019</b>
New Statesman
<b>An astonishing accomplishment and a book for all seasons</b>
Independent
<b>Smith is a masterful storyteller</b>... <i>Spring </i>is political but Smith is more concerned with the human fallout of current affairs then the machinations of elites... Through her account of unlikely friendships, Smith brings human values to the fore. <b>Savour it, because there is just one instalment left</b>
Evening Standard
<i>Spring </i>weaves a story around the most pressing issues of our time... [A] bubbling, babbling brook of a book...<b>Smith tells stories in a voice you can't help but listen to</b>
The Times
<b>A powerful vision of lost souls in a divided Britain...</b> As Smith's Seasonal Quartet moves towards completion her own role in British fiction looks ever more vital. The final page proclaims spring 'the great connective'. It's not a bad description of Smith herself
Guardian
<b>Beguiling... The eagerly awaited third instalment</b>
Financial Times
<b>Infectious in its energy and warmth</b>
Daily Telegraph
Just when things were starting to look really bad, along comes the third instalment in Ali Smith's seasonal quartet to lift us out of the gloom... <b>An extraordinary embodiment of the ways in which storytelling connects us...</b> The work of Katherine Mansfield and Rilke, Greek myths and the propulsive lyricism of spring itself, thread together in narratives of loss and rejuvenation
Daily Mail
The third of her <b>exceptional Seasonal quartet</b>, which riffs back and forth with <i>Autumn</i> and <i>Winter </i>to expound on <b>the importance of hope to move us beyond the darkest of times</b>
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