2020 Political Fiction Book prize long list

Spring

Ali Smith

Published by: Hamish Hamilton

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. Her novel The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Bailey’s Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 and Winter was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2018. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

The third instalment in Ali Smith's seasonal quartet buzzes with topical vigour as it layers together the disharmonies of public opinion, the politics of immigration and the redeeming hope that broken connections can be re-formed."