Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2020 by Ali Smith

Al rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Original y published in hardcover in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd., a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2020.

Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Carcanet Press Ltd. for permission to reprint an excerpt from

“Fires” from New Collected Poems by Edwin Morgan. Copyright © the Estate of Edwin Morgan.

Reprinted by kind permission of Carcanet Press Ltd., Manchester.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Name: Smith, Ali, [date] author.

Title: Summer : a novel / Ali Smith.

Description: First United States edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2020.

Series: Seasonal quartet.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020027016 (print). LCCN 2020027017 (ebook).

ISBN 9781101870792 (hardcover). ISBN 9781101870808 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Domestic fiction.

Classification: LCC PR6069.M4213 S86 2020 (print) | LCC PR6069.M4213 (ebook) |

DDC 823/.914–dc23

LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2020027016

LC ebook record available at lccn.loc.gov/2020027017

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Artwork on rear endpaper: Lorenza Mazzetti, Self Portrait, 2010, acrylic on canvas (100 x 60

cm). Copyright © Lorenza Mazzetti, courtesy Paola Mazzetti.

Photo credit: Eva Krampen Kosloski.

Ebook ISBN 9781101870808

Cover image: English Landscape with Cottage and Stream (detail), by Edward Charles Wil iams.

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Cover design by Oliver Munday

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