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Winter
A Literary Fiction Novel by Ali Smith
Book 2 of the Seasonal Quartet Series
Subgenres:
- Family Saga,
- Contemporary Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Family reunions where secrets and estrangements simmer over the holidays
- Wintry Cornwall settings with big houses full of unresolved tension
- Stories where seeing things blurs the line between reality and imagination
From Little Stack
Spend the winter holidays in Cornwall in this evocative novel and second installment in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet of stories. A family gathers for Christmas at a large Cornish home, including Sophie, an aging woman estranged from her sister and having strange visions. There’s also her adult son, Art, who brings along a woman pretending to be his girlfriend to cover for the fight he had with his real girlfriend. Oddly enough, it’s this fake girlfriend, Lux, who ends up helping heal a rift within the family in this moving and thought-provoking book you won’t soon forget.
From Man Booker Prize Finalist Ali Smith, Winter is the second novel in her Seasonal Quartet.
This much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn is one of the Best Books of the Year from the New York Public Library.
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 shapeshifting Winter casts 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.
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