The third book in Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet is her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present
Ali Smith: ‘finding more compelling ways of getting under the skin of her times’. Photograph: Antonio Olmoso here’s an admission: I enjoyed the first two novels in Ali Smith’s ultra-of-the-moment seasonal quartet, and found the formal inventiveness and sheer bravery of her project admirable: an author dowsing for signification in the frantic landscape of the now, then trying as closely as possible to write novels that speak with the voice of their age.
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