Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of Free Love and Other Stories, Like, Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy, The First Person and Other Stories, There but for the, Artful, How to be both, and Public library and other stories. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and The Accidentalwas shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
I love Ali Smith's writing, and I've been keeping Autumn for an
end-of-book holiday treat
*Val McDermid, 'The Observer'*
In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as
Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians
*Financial Times*
Bold and brilliant, dealing with the body blow of Brexit to offer
us something rare: hope
*Jackie Kay*
Humour, grace, solace...A light-footed meditation on mortality,
mutability and how to keep your head in troubled times
*The Guardian*
Transcendental writing about art, death and all the dimensions of
love. It's not so much 'reading between the lines' as being blinded
by the light between the lines - in a good way
*Deborah Levy*
The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn, which
managed the miracle of making at least a kind of sense out of
post-Brexit Britain
*The Observer*
Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and
transient realities
*The Guardian*
Experimental, thematically complex, associative, time-juggling,
powered by a crazed and energetic curiosity
*Sunday Times*
Pure literary magic
*Mail on Sunday*
Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting. Long may she Remain
that way
*The Times*
A wonderfully risky project...an ambitious, multi-layered
creation...an energising and uplifting story
*The Daily Telegraph*
A moving exploration of the intricacies of the imagination, a sly
teasing-out of a host of big ideas and small revelations, all
hovering around a timeless quandary: how to observe, how to be
*The New York Times*
I wonder: How does she manage to so wonderfully weave in and out of
time, to layer time, while creating something that feels like it
was written this morning after she read today's newspaper?
*PBS News Hour*
Publisher's description. Autumn 2016: the UK is in pieces, divided
by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is
lost. The seasons roll round as ever. From the imagination of the
peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting, light-footed,
time-travelling novel. This is a story about right now, this
minute; about ageing and time and love and stories themselves. Here
comes Autumn.
*Penguin*
Transcendental writing about art, death, political lies, trees and
all the dimensions of love
*Deborah Levy*
Unbearably moving, shrewd and dreamy, playful, strange [and]
soulful...[An] assessment of what it means to be alive...Ali Smith
has a beautiful mind and where her mind goes, you want to
follow...I am struck by, and stuck on, Autumn.
*New York Times*
Fantastic writing, big ideas and generosity of spirit
*Cressida Connolly*
The first serious Brexit novel
*Financial Times*
She is, of course, Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting
*Observer*
Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and
transient realities
*The Guardian*
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