from PRX.

This is Studio 360. I'm Kurti Anderson.

Brexit. Brexit. Brexit. The British people have voted to leave the European Union.

We are leaving the European Union.

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of London, demanding a second

referendum.

European leaders say a chaotic no-deal Brexit in two weeks' time is now a likely outcome.

The extension to the Brexit process to the end of October at the latest.

Three years ago, the people of the UK voted to pull out of the EU.

But since then, there's been this bizarre, baffling series of parliamentary deadlocks, deadlines,

extensions, fiasco after fiasco.

The Scottish writer, Ali Smith, is writing a tetralogy of novels set against this not quite post-Brexit backdrop, each of them named after a season.

The third one in her series, Spring, comes out this week.

I spoke with Smith when the first book, Autumn, had just been published in America.

And I asked her to start with a reading.

All across the country, people felt it was the wrong thing.

All across the country.

People felt it was the right thing.

All across the country.

People felt they'd really lost. All across the country.

People felt they'd really won.

All across the country, people felt they'd done the right thing

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