The Accidental - Ali Smith
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction
Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Jonathan Safran Foer has called her writing thrilling. Jeanette Winterson has praised her for her style, ideas, and punch. Here, in a novel at once profound, playful, and exhilaratingly inventive, she transfixes us with a portrait of a family unraveled by a mysterious visitor., Amberthirtysomething and barefootshows up at the door of the Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting for the summer. She talks her way in. She tells nothing but lies. She stays for dinner., Eve Smart, the author of a best-selling series of biographical reconstructions, thinks Amber is a student with whom her husband, Michael, is sleeping. Michael, an English professor, knows only that her car broke down. Daughter Astrid, age twelve, thinks shes her mothers friend. Son Magnus, age seventeen, thinks shes an angel., As Amber insinuates herself into th
