Winter: from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author

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Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. In Ali Smith's 'Winter', lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. Show more