Ali Smith

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• Autumn

  Written in English

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  Booker 2017 · Shortlist

  Autumn

  Autumn

  Ali Smith · 54 when first published

  Novel · 272 pages · Politics · Seasonal Quartet, book 1

  AIAI-generated summary:In the months after the 2016 Brexit vote, Elisabeth, a young lecturer in London, looks back on her lifelong friendship with Daniel, her former neighbour, who is now a hundred years old and near the end of his life.

• How to Be Both

  Written in English

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  Booker 2014 · Shortlist

  How to be Both

  How to Be Both

  Ali Smith · 52 when first published

  Novel · 384 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Two linked stories, printed in either order: a sixteen-year-old in present-day Cambridge mourns her mother, and a Renaissance painter of the 1460s remembers making frescoes in a palace in Ferrara.

• The Accidental

  Written in English

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  Booker 2005 · Shortlist

  The Accidental

  The Accidental

  Ali Smith · 43 when first published

  Novel · 305 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:A family's dreary summer holiday in Norfolk is thrown into disorder by the arrival of an alluring young woman named Amber, whom each of them assumes somebody else must know.

• Hotel World

  Written in English

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  Booker 2001 · Shortlist

  Hotel World

  Hotel World

  Ali Smith · 39 when first published

  Novel · 236 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:A nineteen-year-old chambermaid dies after a fall down a hotel dumbwaiter shaft; her lingering ghost and four living women linked to that night, among them her grieving sister, tell their stories.