Winter by Ali Smith

Winter by Ali SmithA once in a generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour de force 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 summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. In Ali Smith's Winter,

Hollie McNish and Grace Nichols to name but a few

Anne-Marie Duff and Lin-Manuel Miranda

And when Tess discovers that the Starspinner is the gateway between her world and a parallel world in which war rages

'as though the root of the world were ripped clean off'

she must embark on a desperate odyssey through a city of greed

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This story will haunt me forever

a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away

Referred to as `one of the last authentic expressions of the Gaelic tradition

' - BookTrust'I cannot praise this book enough

it was the Europeans who held the pens

and the increasing loss