It is where the last of the fruitfulness is carried out in a mellow fashion. If you love the time of year where the leaves all change color and the air starts to get crisp as Halloween approaches, then check out this debut that captures all of the magic of this season and more.Įveryone knows that autumn is the season where the mists come in and the harvests are gathered. If you are looking for a new and interesting fictional series to pick up and get into, then check this one out!Īutumn is the first novel in the Seasonal series by author Ali Smith. Winter followed that and the third novel in the series is titled Spring and came out in 2019. The series started off with the release of the debut novel Autumn, which came out in 2016. She dedicates all of her novels to her partner Sarah Wood.Īli Smith is the creator and the author of the Seasonal series. Smith knew that she really loved writing and wanted to pursue it as a career, and her illness afforded her an opportunity to go for it.Īli Smith has a partner that she has been with for over a decade. Even though this was tough, it also came with a silver lining for the author as it finally allowed her the chance to pursue her passion. Smith talked about how she did have to give up working at the University of Strathclyde lecturing. She talks about how she started writing in a magazine interview in 2004, where she briefly spoke about how coming down with chronic fatigue syndrome for the better part of a year.

She attended Aberdeen for her higher education and then pursued her Ph.D.

She moved to Cambridge, where she currently resides. Ali Smith is a published author, journalist, playwright, and academic.Īli Smith was born August 24, 1962, in Scotland in Inverness.

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