![]() Instead, dazzled by her seeming exoticism, the Smarts begin to examine the accidents of their lives through the searing lens of Amber’s perceptions. ![]() Son Magnus, age seventeen, thinks she’s an angel.Īs Amber insinuates herself into the family, the questions of who she is and how she’s come to be there drop away. ![]() Daughter Astrid, age twelve, thinks she’s her mother’s friend. Michael, an English professor, knows only that her car broke down. She stays for dinner.Įve Smart, the author of a best-selling series of biographical reconstructions, thinks Amber is a student with whom her husband, Michael, is sleeping. 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.Īmber-thirtysomething and barefoot-shows up at the door of the Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting for the summer. 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. ![]()
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