Review: Summer, by Ali Smith

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With a dazzling Summer, Scottish writer Ali Smith (Inverness, 1964) closes the cycle of her masterly seasonal Quartet. The final novel links the lives of a family, an old man and a couple – who are no longer a couple – into a loom of threads that come together and separate to show that, at the bottom of today’s darkness, it is still possible to find a spark of hope. Among multiple points of view, focused on the life of each protagonist as a magi…