Author: alismith

A Booker Prize finalist and NPR Best Book of 2017: An unlikely friendship between elderly Daniel and lonely Elisabeth spurs a meditation on time, transformation, and connection. “Shimmers with wit, melancholy, grief, joy, wisdom, small acts of love, and, always, wonder at the seasons” (The Boston Globe).

In this “offbeat and alluring” novel (The New York Times) from a Man Booker Prize–nominated author, an unconventional family finds the unexpected over the course of a holiday in Cornwall. “Ali Smith is flat-out brilliant, and she’s on fire these days… Impassioned” (NPR).