A onceinageneration series Ali Smiths Seasonal Quartet is a tourdeforce about love time art politics and how we live now. Winter Bleak. Frosty wind earth as iron water as stone so the old song goes. The shortest days the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summers leaves Dead litter. The world shrinks the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if theres ice therell be fire. In Ali Smiths Winter lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle the followup to her sensational Autumn Smith casts a merry eye over a bleak posttruth era with a story rooted in history memory and warmth its taproot deep in the evergreens art love laughter. Its the season that teaches us survival. Here comes Winter.Discover all four instalments Autumn Winter Spring and Summer. Ali Smiths new novel Companion piece is available to preorder now.Dazzling . . . Even in the bleak midwinter Smith is evergreen Daily Telegraph Graceful mischievous joyful . . . Infused with some muchneeded humour happiness and hope Independent A novel of great ferocity tenderness and generosity of spirit . . . Luminously beautiful Observer