As she grows, they have in-depth discussions about reality, stories, art, and other cultural subjects.
The novel weaves back and forth between the present and the past, from the time Elisabeth first met Daniel at the age of eight to the current day where she is 32 and Daniel is dying in hospice.Īs a child, Elisabeth takes a quick liking to Daniel because Daniel is not only kind and intelligent, but he challenges her mind. The narrator takes a decidedly negative view of Brexit – the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union – and into the divided post-Brexit social landscape, readers meet Daniel and Elisabeth. As the novel gets under way, the narrator – who is never identified but who speaks to the reader as though a close friend – denotes that England in 2016 is England in the worst of times. Pantheon Books, 2016.Īutumn is a post-Brexit novel of love, truth, and time by Ali Smith in which 32-year-old Elisabeth Demand reflects on her almost lifelong romantic-spiritual love affair with 101-year-old Daniel Gluck. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Smith, Ali.
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