Winter: A Novel [Hardcover]

Shortlisted for the British Book Award – Fiction Book of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing

The second novel in the Man Booker Prize–nominated author’s Seasonal cycle; the much-anticipated follow-up toAutumn(aNew York Times,Washington Post, NPR,Financial Times,The Guardian,Southern Living, andKirkus Reviewsbest book of the year).
 
Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Art’s mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art’s seeing things himself.
 
When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone?
 
Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smith’s shapeshiftingWintercasts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.“Smith’s brilliant, breathtakingly immediate sequence . . .  crackles with energy, curiosity, and mischief. . . .Even in the darkest periods, tendrils of life still strive toward the light. . . . Its creator wants to remind us that the pendulum can swing back and that one day the sun will return.”
—Laura Miller,Slate

“[A] moving mixture of the fantastical and the allegorical . . . Topical, sweet-natured, something fun to be inside.”
—James Wood,The New Yorker

“Extremely funny and seriously angry and experimental and heartbreaking, but never sentimental . . . InWinter, the light inside this great novelist’s gorgeous snow globe is utterly original, and it definitely illuminates.”
—Meg Wolitzer,The New York Times Book Review
 
“It is not necessary to read Smith’s&l£$