{"product_id":"winter-9780241207024","title":"Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover Ali Smith's dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right now\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll four instalments of the quartet are available to buy and read in paperback and ebook now: \u003ci\u003eAutumn, Winter, Spring \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSummer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Book of the Year according to: the\u003ci\u003e Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Evening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Dazzling' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinter? 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 summer's leaves? Dead litter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world shrinks; the sap sinks. \u003cbr\u003eBut winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Ali Smith's \u003ci\u003eWinter, \u003c\/i\u003elifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed \u003ci\u003eSeasonal\u003c\/i\u003e cycle, the follow-up to her sensational \u003ci\u003eAutumn, \u003c\/i\u003eSmith'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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the season that teaches us survival. \u003cbr\u003eHere comes \u003ci\u003eWinter.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50953328722262,"sku":"9780241207024","price":20.02,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9780241207024.jpg?v=1754008423","url":"https:\/\/www.laufgard.com\/products\/winter-9780241207024","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}