{"product_id":"winter-9781101969953","title":"Winter","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Man Booker Prize Finalist Ali Smith, \u003ci\u003eWinter\u003c\/i\u003e is the second novel in her Seasonal Quartet. This much-anticipated follow-up to \u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the Best Books of the Year from the New York Public Library.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A stunning meditation on a complex, emotional moment in history.\" --\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Art's mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art's seeing things himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinter. It makes things visible. Ali Smith's shapeshifting \u003ci\u003eWinter\u003c\/i\u003e casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eALI SMITH \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1962 and lives in Cambridge, England. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAutumn, How to be both, There but for the, Artful, Free Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and other stories, The Whole Story and other stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The First Person and other stories. Hotel World \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Accidental\u003c\/i\u003e were both short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. \u003ci\u003eHow to be both \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. \u003ci\u003eAutumn \u003c\/i\u003ewas short-listed for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630011289874,"sku":"9781101969953","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_455cdfeb-1e2f-49a0-9628-352831ec8b9e.jpg?v=1732740367","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/winter-9781101969953","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}