{"product_id":"winter-ali-smith-seasonal-quartet-2","title":"Winter - Ali Smith (Seasonal Quartet #2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dazzling second novel in Ali Smith's essential Seasonal Quartet - from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be Both.\u003cbr\u003eWinter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter. It's the season that teaches us survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere comes Winter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57159446823292,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/w-as-01_35b9ea7f-386e-49ce-bcb8-b93a9945973f.jpg?v=1783691126","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/winter-ali-smith-seasonal-quartet-2","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}