Ever-inventive...Autumn is the first serious Brexit novel...In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians.
Financial Times, Books of the Year
The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn, which managed the miracle of making at least a kind of sense out of post-Brexit ... Read moreBritain.
Olivia Laing, Observer
Bold and brilliant, dealing with the body blow of Brexit to offer us something rare: hope.
Jackie Kay, poet
[Ali Smith] is simply incapable of writing a dull paragraph
New Statesman
Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities
Guardian
Humour, grace, solace...A light-footed meditation on mortality, mutability and how to keep your head in troubled times
Guardian, Best Fiction 2016
[Ali Smith] is Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting - and I can't wait for her new book
Sebastian Barry, Observer
Fantastic writing, big ideas and generosity of spirit
Spectator
The book I'd like to receive for Christmas: Ali Smith's Autumn.
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
Transcendental writing about art, death and all the dimensions of love. It's not so much 'reading between the lines' as being blinded by the light between the lines - in a good way
Deborah Levy
Publisher's description. Autumn 2016: the UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. The seasons roll round as ever. From the imagination of the peerless Ali Smith comes a shape-shifting, light-footed, time-travelling novel. This is a story about right now, this minute; about ageing and time and love and stories themselves. Here comes Autumn.
Penguin
I wonder: How does she manage to so wonderfully weave in and out of time, to layer time, while creating something that feels like it was written this morning after she read today's newspaper?
PBS News Hour
A moving exploration of the intricacies of the imagination, a sly teasing-out of a host of big ideas and small revelations, all hovering around a timeless quandary: how to observe, how to be
The New York Times
A wonderfully risky project...an ambitious, multi-layered creation...an energising and uplifting story
The Daily Telegraph
Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting. Long may she Remain that way
The Times
Pure literary magic
Mail on Sunday
Experimental, thematically complex, associative, time-juggling, powered by a crazed and energetic curiosity
Sunday Times
Autumn is a beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities
The Guardian
The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn, which managed the miracle of making at least a kind of sense out of post-Brexit Britain
The Observer
Transcendental writing about art, death and all the dimensions of love. It's not so much 'reading between the lines' as being blinded by the light between the lines - in a good way
Deborah Levy
Humour, grace, solace...A light-footed meditation on mortality, mutability and how to keep your head in troubled times
The Guardian
Bold and brilliant, dealing with the body blow of Brexit to offer us something rare: hope
Jackie Kay
In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians
Financial Times
I love Ali Smith's writing, and I've been keeping Autumn for an end-of-book holiday treat
Val McDermid, 'The Observer'
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