They all go to interview Daniel Gluck from “Autumn”. Grace is also visited by Arthur and Charlotte from the novel “Winter” who are continuing their 'Art in Nature' online project. As with the other novels, there are multiple conversations and oodles of pleasurable witty dialogue between the characters which results in a lot of humour and fun wordplay. This novel primarily focuses on the stories of Grace Greenlaw, a single mother and former actress who lives next door to her ex-husband Jeff, as well as their two children Sacha and Robert. But they also join together to form a tapestry of relationships between specific characters introduced over the course of the previous novels, many of whom reappear in this final book in the series “Summer”. As Iris remarks in this novel: “We're all walking the line now, the line between one era and another.” This makes these novels invaluable documents as they reflect this turbulent era. It's so unique how the stories in these novels have been shaped by our immediate times and thus captured the sensibility, fears and divergent opinions of the country in its state of constant flux. Some of the immigrants being detained under the watchful gaze of a correction officer in “Spring” have now been released because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The conservative ex-mayor of London who was mocked in “Winter” has now become the Prime Minister. She discusses her three lodgers, who she overhears mockingly calling her "the scarecrow".What a strange, tumultuous journey it's been over the past four years, but I'm so grateful that I've had Ali Smith's Seasonal novels by my side! Who could have predicted the many unsettling transformations that would take place in our social and political landscape when she began this ambitious writing project back in 2016? The highly contentious Brexit vote described in “Autumn” resulted in the UK officially leaving the EU this year. She gives him some anthropomorphic characteristics, describing his personality and his habits, and the companionship he provided her with. She discusses her pet canary who has died at an unspecified time in the past. The story is told in the first person by a lonely woman. It was the last short story she ever completed. She finished the story on 7 July 1922, when she and her husband John Middleton Murry were living at a hotel in Randogne (now part of Crans-Montana), Switzerland, from 4 June to 16 August 1922. Mansfield began writing the story at the Victoria Palace Hotel in Paris in 1922, where a woman who lived opposite the hotel kept canaries in a cage. It was first published posthumously in The Nation and Atheneum on 21 April 1923, and later appeared in The Doves' Nest and Other Stories (1923). " The Canary" is a short story by Katherine Mansfield.
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