SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A onceinageneration series Ali Smiths Seasonal Quartet is a tourdeforce about love time art politics and how we live now. Her best yet a dazzling hymn to hope uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices Observer What unites Katherine Mansfield Charlie Chaplin Shakespeare Rilke Beethoven Brexit the present the past the north the south the east the west a man mourning lost times a woman trapped in modern times Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time and riffing on Pericles one of Shakespeares most resistant and rollicking works Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door. The time were living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story Hope springs eternal.Discover all four instalments Autumn Winter Spring and Summer. Ali Smiths new novel Companion piece is available now.An astonishing accomplishment and a book for all seasons IndependentSmith is a masterful storyteller . . . Savour it Evening StandardInfectious in its energy and warmth Daily Telegraph