Spring follows a string of characters and explores themes like immigration and human nature in general, as well as the aftermath of the EU referendum and growing tensions in the UK.

Brit works at a detention centre for migrants where she unexpectedly meets a young girl named Florence.

Spring was first released in hardback and e-book format in the United Kingdom on 28 March 2019 through Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books.

[5][6] Spring also received an audiobook adaptation narrated by Juliette Burton that was published by Recorded Books.

[10][11] Rebecca Makkai of The New York Times compared the novel favorably to Ulysses while Justine Jordan of The Guardian called it "a powerful vision of lost souls in a divided Britain".