Winter
- Author Ali Smith
- Narrator Adjoa Andoh
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 30 October 2025
- Run Time 7 hours and 17 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Social issues.
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A 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, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith 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.
It's the season that teaches us survival.
Here comes Winter.
'Dazzling . . . Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen' Daily Telegraph
'Graceful, mischievous, joyful . . . Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness and hope' Independent
'A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit . . . Luminously beautiful' Observer
© Ali Smith 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
| Author | Ali Smith |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Adjoa Andoh |
| Duration | 7 hours and 17 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781405981521 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Social issues |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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