Novel 9 Summers 10 Autumns Pdf Download
Vinnie Breidenthal
Tracy Bohan, agent: Ali had delivered a previous novel after her deadline and Simon and the team at Penguin had heroically managed to keep their publication schedule. It became a happy accident, and sparked an idea for a subsequent cycle of books. That was the first conversation we had about it.
Simon: She wanted to write a sequence of books called Seasonal and they would each deal with a season. And there was the idea of whether it would be possible to write these books on a relatively short time, so they were right up to the minute, as contemporaneous as could possibly be, and whether we could publish them as fast as was humanly possible.
Simon: It made sense for the bindings to reflect the seasons, so Richard and I had a happy hour choosing all of the bindings to reflect the different seasons from a book of linens, and then thinking about the foils, and getting the foil to reflect the seasons.
The five summers that have seen The Seasonal Quartet through from beginning to end have been rich in rite and mystery, with each new book following certain patterns and habits created by its predecessor.
Hermione: She allows her ideas to percolate and ferment for a really long time, doing all this research and investigating all these all these directions, so that by the time she sits down to write she has a very detailed and developed sense of what she wants to do with it.
Hermione: The idea for the Quartet came about just before we hit this period of ridiculously news-heavy few years, and none of us could really have known that was coming, but it felt like Ali was picking up on something in the water.
Simon: We had to work out a schedule way ahead of time. Because one thing I felt strongly was that you should publish each book in the season of its essence, so that means some books had a slightly longer run at them and some had less.
Anna: The preview events have grown book on book. We had to move the one for Spring out of the office to get a space big enough to fit everyone and then for Summer, the digital preview event was attended by people from far-flung locations. That felt really exciting, a kind of fitting final instalment.
Hannah: I remember reading Spring overnight, I remember staying up late to read it. I remember feeling like I had this big exciting secret that everybody else was waiting for, and I had to myself.
Lindsay: Anna and I both cried, which sounds a little bit ridiculous but a number one feels like something beyond just a commercial success. It meant that people were reading this very important book at the kind of volume that actually can effect change, do you know?
Hermione: Ali had never charted in the Hardback Bestseller Top 10 before, and for her first entry to be number one, and for this incredibly risk-taking, brave, generous-spirited, totally sui generis piece of work felt, so joyful and special.
Even after a series that had taken in Brexit, political upheaval, an immigration crisis and the tragedy of Grenfell Tower, few could have anticipated the history-making events that would affect the final book in the cycle.
Hannah: She was writing just as lockdown happened and we got a draft in, and then we had a new draft in as the Black Lives Matter protest started, because it would be impossible to publish that without those things having occurred already.
Simon: It felt totally different to having the mock-ups. The kids were away, so I was in the house on my own which is very, very rare and so they just sat on the sofa and kept me company for a night. They sat there and glowed and radiated something. And I thought, what an incredible achievement that Ali has done, what an incredible achievement by my colleagues to make this happen and for these books to be there, sitting one on top of another. I was very, very moved, actually.
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