Autumn is a 2016 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published by Hamish Hamilton. It is the first of four seasonal 'state of the nation' works.

A Man Booker Prize Finalist, the first novel in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love—and stories themselves.

Autumn is a playful, multi-layered and at times delectably subversive novel on the floating of time, aging, identity, art, love and friendship, grounded knee- ...

Oct 12, 2016 · Autumn begins in a wild region of no-time, as Daniel Gluck dreams that he is young again, or dead: “He must be dead, he is surely dead, because ...

Jan 10, 2018 · As the novel opens Daniel appears to be hallucinating and while doing so philosophises about death. Elisabeth is 32 and a junior lecturer in ...

Oct 14, 2021 · Then follows a comedy chapter taking place at the post office, where Elisabeth experiences endless bureaucracy and inefficiency when trying to ...

An unconventional love story, Autumn plays across time and history. This is the first of a quartet of novels, Seasonal, four separate but interconnected books ...

Aug 13, 2017 · Daniel and Elizabeth's relationship is at the center of this novel, love of a sort, if not the romantic sort. In the book's present-day timeline ...

Oct 17, 2017 · A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, and it ...

Feb 9, 2017 · Smith's latest novel, Autumn, is the first of a quartet planned to span the four seasons. Set this past summer and fall in a bitterly ...