Autumn
by Ali Smith · 2016
Literary Fiction · ranked #77 in category
Elisabeth Demand visits her elderly friend Daniel Gluck in a care home as he drifts in and out of sleep and consciousness. Interwoven with their relationship across decades is a fragmented portrait of Britain in the weeks after the 2016 Brexit vote. The first of Smith's Seasonal Quartet and one of the first literary novels to respond directly to Brexit.
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