She worked as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde until she fell ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, for a PhD that she never finished. She was born to working-class parents, raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. To date, she has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize three times and the Orange Prize twice. Education-University of Abderdeen Cambridge UniversityĪli Smith is a Scottish writer who won the Whitbread Award in 2005 for her novel, The Accidental.Wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories, Autumn is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love - and stories themselves. Shakespearean jeu d’esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. The seasons roll round, as ever.Ī luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Two old friends-Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984 - look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer.
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