The Accidental

Author: Ali Smith

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  • : $24.95 AUD
  • : 9780141010397
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
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  • : April 2006
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 19mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Barcode 9780141010397
9780141010397

Description

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.

Awards

Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 2005. Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005 and Orange Prize 2006 and Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award 2006.

Author description

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of Free Love, Like, Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World and The Whole Story and Other Stories.