{"product_id":"spring-by-smith-ali","title":"Spring by Ali Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eSUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Luminous, generous, hope-filled . . .The third book in Ali Smith's seasonal quartet is her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices... [Ali Smith] is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now' - Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpring. The great connective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHope springs eternal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42112312901706,"sku":"1886a","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/1886a.jpg?v=1765492541","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/spring-by-smith-ali","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}