RaveEvening Standard (UK)Summer, the final instalment, is set to be the first great coronavirus novel ... As with Spring, it is the human values that come to the forefront, as Smith touches on the scale of the UK’s migrant crisis ... Summer is a book to savour, a literary tour de force that captures the nation’s psyche exquisitely, and just like the season itself, ends on a fleeting, open and hopeful note, which is exactly what we need in these strange times.
