Winter A Novel [Paperback]

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

One of the Best Books of the Year: New York Public Library,Kirkus Reviews 

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.“Brilliant. . . . The light inside this great novelist’s gorgeous snow globe is utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Ali Smith is flat-out brilliant. . . . Once again [she] has balanced darkness with light, bleakness with hope.”—NPR

“Virtuosic. . . . Smith gives us a potent, necessary source of sustenance that speaks directly to our age.” —The Boston Globe
 
“Moving. . . . You finish an Ali Smith book . . . certain that you have been in the presence of an artist who rarely sounds like anyone else.” —The New Yorker
 
“Winter is a triumph of imagination. . . . Luminous. . . . Fascinating.” —The Atlantic

“Brilliant, breathtakingly immediate.l3°