Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR The Guardian UK Kirkus Reviews The fourth novel in the Seasonal Quartet by Man Booker Prize Finalist Ali Smith is a prose poem in praise of memory forgiveness getting the joke and seizing the moment The New York Times In the present Sacha knows the worlds in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the worlds in meltdownand the real meltdown hasnt even started yet. In the past a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know theyre living on borrowed time. This is a story about people on the brink of change. Theyre family but they think theyre strangers. So Where does family begin And what do people who think theyve got nothing in common have in common Summer. show more