![]() They formed their own connections, unearthed their own structures. They never did what I’d imagined they’d do. All these feelings passed in the 30 seconds it takes to toast something that’s done with a single measure of single malt, then I emerged from my room into the very real, visceral confluence of hope and despair happening to us all in life in Covid lockdown.ĭid writing to the calendar surprise you?Īll four books surprised me – from their unexpected characters to their osmosis structure, in which I had to have a blind faith. Curious as to whether the book would hold water, and as for the series: no idea. I felt the usual failure (it always feels like a failure at the end of a book). ![]() ![]() How did you feel as you completed Summer and your phenomenal, four-season marathon? Autumn (2016), written pre-Brexit and shortlisted for the Booker, was followed by Winter (2017), then Spring (2019) and Summer (2020) – out now in paperback. ![]() A li Smith, 58, is one of our most mind-stretching, energetic and playful novelists, and her seasonal quartet of novels, which she has described as a “time-sensitive experiment”, is a literary, historical take on our troubled age. ![]()
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