The Accidental

Ali Smith

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Product Details

ISBN: 9780141010397
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 17 May 2006
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 305 p.

About the Book

The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to think about their world and themselves in an entirely new way. The Accidental is at once a mysterious web of secret identities and a ruthlessly honest look at the silent cracks that can develop unnoticed in relationships over time.

Reviews

  • "...The Accidental has an infectious sense of fun and invention." Steven Poole, Guardian.co.uk
  • "Smith has written a proper novel with a beginning, a middle and an end... At her beginning, each character is facing some kind of dead end. By the end, everything, including the story of the stranger on the doorstep, is ready to begin again. And in the middle is a fable as beautifully formed and as astringently intelligent as her barefoot delinquent angel." Lucy Hughes-Hallett, TimesOnline
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