{"product_id":"winter-by-ali-smith","title":"Winter by Ali Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. In Ali Smith's \u003cem\u003eWinter\u003c\/em\u003e, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this second novel in her acclaimed \u003cem\u003eSeasonal\u003c\/em\u003e cycle, the follow-up to her sensational \u003cem\u003eAutumn\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. Here comes Winter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Luminously beautiful' \u003c\/em\u003eObserver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback \/ 336 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32763721777237,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/products\/9780241973332.jpg?v=1600793226","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/winter-by-ali-smith","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}