{"product_id":"winter-by-ali-smith","title":"Winter by Ali Smith","description":"\u003cspan\u003eBOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, New York Times . . .The unmissable second novel in Ali Smith's acclaimed 'Seasonal' quartet -- a Christmas story like no otherWinter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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's shape-shifting quartet of novels 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere comes Winter.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54037986738452,"sku":"yej1789765750040","price":10.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/winter-by-ali-smith_1.jpg?v=1789765753","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/winter-by-ali-smith","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}