Book info

• Title Autumn
• Author Ali Smith
• Year 2016
• Genre Contemporary

Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever...

Thoughts

This is the first in a seasonal quartet of books and I didn’t really know what to expect going into it. It’s that stream-of-consciousness writing and at first I wasn’t really sure but it gradually drew me in. I really liked when Elisabeth was going about her business, the more dream-like stuff lost me a little bit. So I enjoyed reading it even though I’m not sure I followed the whole thing… but I don’t think I’ll bother to read the others.

Rating: 2 / 5