Winter
Author: Smith, Ali
ISBN: 9780241973332
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 15 Oct 2018
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
Dark yet life-affirming, endlessly inventive and heart-breakingly human - the next novel in the P#39;SeasonalP#39; cycle, following the Man Booker-shortlisted Plt;iPgt;AutumnPlt;/iPgt;
Winter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. But winter makes things visible. And Christmas is a time for family reunions, unexpected guests and evergreen truths.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;ItP#39;s December in Cornwall and ArtP#39;s mother is seeing things. Art has problems too. His girlfriend has left so heP#39;s paying Lux, a young immigrant he found on the street, to impersonate her - but Lux has no intention of sticking to the script. And Iris, ArtP#39;s prodigal aunt, septuagenarian CND-er and black sheep of the family, is about to arrive with a car full of food and a throat full of protest songs. Four people, strangers and family, in a fifteen-bedroom house for Christmas - will there be enough room for everyone?Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;iPgt;WinterPlt;/iPgt; casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, art, love and memory, protest and survival.
ISBN: 9780241973332
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 15 Oct 2018
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
Dark yet life-affirming, endlessly inventive and heart-breakingly human - the next novel in the P#39;SeasonalP#39; cycle, following the Man Booker-shortlisted Plt;iPgt;AutumnPlt;/iPgt;
Winter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. But winter makes things visible. And Christmas is a time for family reunions, unexpected guests and evergreen truths.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;ItP#39;s December in Cornwall and ArtP#39;s mother is seeing things. Art has problems too. His girlfriend has left so heP#39;s paying Lux, a young immigrant he found on the street, to impersonate her - but Lux has no intention of sticking to the script. And Iris, ArtP#39;s prodigal aunt, septuagenarian CND-er and black sheep of the family, is about to arrive with a car full of food and a throat full of protest songs. Four people, strangers and family, in a fifteen-bedroom house for Christmas - will there be enough room for everyone?Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;iPgt;WinterPlt;/iPgt; casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, art, love and memory, protest and survival.
