What a perfect ending. Picking up most of the stories and people from the other three books. I would just love to keep on reading about those characters that have grown on me dearly. Again a lot of politics and arts... this time mainly the pandemic and how it changed who we see as family and want to stay close to in times get rough... Next time I would like to read the books in german. They are a lovely read in English, don't get me wrong. But I think I could get even deeper into the story and be more able to read between the lines in german. And I would read them one after the other and not wait for the right season to come... this was an amazing experience but it would be nicer not to have to look up who was who in one of the other seasons...

ali smith is a genius and i will not accept other opinions about this. summer especially was a book about bringing people together in a time that is trying to split us apart. in the same way as autumn, winter, spring and summer only make sense as a tetralogy, a connected story rather than separate entities, summer’s story unites everything.

>>Zeit ist Glas und Sand, ist spröde und flüssig, Zeit ist zerbrechlich und fest, ist scharf und stumpf, Zeit ist heute und früher, ist davor und danach, Zeit ist glatt und rau, und wenn man sich aus seiner Gebundenheit an der Zeit lösen will, lacht die Zeit laut und zieht einem das Fell ab.<>Überall auf der Welt geschieht so viel Schockierendes - wenn deine Definition stimmt, dann wäre die ganze Welt jetzt gerade das größte Kunstprojekt aller Zeiten,...<<