Product Description
The Accidental
Author(s): Ali Smith
Format: Paperback
Winner of the Costa Novel of the Year
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Saltire Award
'Joyous' The Times
The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the light.
A novel about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, The Accidental explores the nature of truth, the role of fate and the power of storytelling.
'Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh' — Sunday Telegraph
'Funny, sexy, poignant, bewitching' — Observer
'A beguiling page-turner . . . To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last' — Independent
About the Author
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
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