Spring: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet)

What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit,  the current, the previous, the north, the south, the east, the west, a person mourning misplaced instances, a girl trapped in fashionable instances?

Spring. The good connective.

With a watch to the migrancy of story over time and riffing on Pericles, one among Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith inform the unattainable story of an unattainable time. In a time of partitions and lockdown, Smith opens the door.

The time we're residing in is altering nature. Will it change the character of story?

Hope springs everlasting.