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Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.Cleverly constructed and elegantly written. It's both an engaging human story and a place for wider topical observations. Bring on Spring
Evening Standard
If Ali Smith's four quartets in, and about, time do not endure to rank among <b>the most original, consoling and inspiring</b> of the artistic responses to 'this mad and bitter mess' of the present, then we will have plunged into an even bleaker mid-winter than people often fear
Financial Times
Smith is a specialist by now in using a quizzical, feather-light prose style to interrogate the heaviest of material...throughout <i>Winter</i>, grief and pain are transfigured, sometimes lastingly, by luminous moments of humour, insight and connection... <b>Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen</b>
Telegraph
A novel of <b>great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit</b> that you feel Dickens would have recognised...Smith is engaged in an extended process of mythologizing the present states of Britain... <b>Luminously beautiful</b>
Observer
A sparkler...tune in to <i>Spring </i>and <i>Summer </i>to see if art can save the day
Spectator
<b>Graceful</b>... That <b>trademark mischievous wit and wordplay</b>, a joyful reminder of the most basic, elemental delights of reading ... Infused with some <b>much-needed humour, happiness and hope</b>
Independent
A capacious, generous shapeshifter of a novel taking in Greenham Common and Barbara Hepworth, Shakespeare and global migration, it juxtaposes art with nature and protest with apathy, finding surprising alliances in a family riven by feuds. It's a book with Christmas at its heart, in all its familiarity and estrangement: about time, and out of time, like the festival itself
The Guardian
Dazzling second instalment of Ali Smith's seasonal quartet
The Daily Telegraph
A book I can't wait to read for Christmas
The Observer
Relish this instalment
The Times