A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary; legendary and unpindownable; spellbinding and shapeshifting forms... It follows the unique achievement of her Seasonal cycle of novels - Autumn; Winter; Spring and Summer - written and published in as close as possible to real time; between 2016 and 2020; absorbing and refracting the times we are living through: the 'state-of-the-nation novels which understand that the nation is you; is me; is all of us' (New Statesman). 'Ali Smith is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now' Observer