Abstract

Ali Smith’s novel depicts the gloomy state of post-Brexit England by focusing on the lives of two main characters: Richard and Brittany. Smith intersects the paths of the two depressed and depressing characters to that of Florence, a pure and almost magical child, insisting on the idea that opportunities of new beginnings are constantly granted to people, as long as they are willing to change. Far from being a fairy tale, “Spring” is a serious novel about harsh realities, thus, not all the characters receive a happy ending. However, Ali Smith’s novel encourages us that as we take advantage of the chances given and we accept the constancy of change, we are the ones that actually become a fairy story.

Highlights

  • Being used to the Dickensian realism and the poetic style that Smith beautifully combines, as well as with the author’s way of depicting the world in motion with its difficult complications like Brexit, racism, immigration, poverty, climate change in a hopeful way, the readers of Ali Smith’s Spring might expect the most positive novel in the series

  • The barns were almost empty. (Smith, 2019, p. 225). Such is the onset of the season of new life, in which everything and everyone receives a new beginning

  • After a bleak political rant right at the beginning of the novel, we enter the mind of Richard, a film director, whose lost hope because of the death of Paddy, his closest friend and his source of inspiration, lead him to a premature end: an attempted suicide

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Being used to the Dickensian realism and the poetic style that Smith beautifully combines, as well as with the author’s way of depicting the world in motion with its difficult complications like Brexit, racism, immigration, poverty, climate change in a hopeful way, the readers of Ali Smith’s Spring might expect the most positive novel in the series. The third novel is the gloomiest, since spring does not always come in full force, especially after a long winter: It was the time of the year when everything was dead.

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