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The Accidental (Penguin Ink)

The Accidental (Penguin Ink)

by Ali Smith (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

I was born in a trunk. It was during the matinee on Friday. I stopped the show. Arresting and wonderful, 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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: PENGUIN INK
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 04 Aug 2011
ISBN 10: 0241954568
ISBN 13: 9780241954560

Media Reviews
A beguiling page-turner ... a brilliant creation. To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last * Independent *
Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious, exhilaratingly sharp-eyed . . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh * Sunday Telegraph *
Joyous, a shot across the bows . . . writing as rapture, as giddy delight * The Times *
An astonishing book - funny and moving, playful and shocking. It is what one hopes for in a modern novel, and yet it confounds all expectations. It is complex. It is beautiful. It is exhilarating. It is fiction at its most artful * Financial Times *
Smith's novels fizz with pyrotechnic prose, whirl-wind openings, bewitching invention * Observer *
Exuberantly inventive ... at once dazzlingly bright and profoundly dark * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of Free Love, Like, Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, The First Person and Other Stories and There but for the. She lives in Cambridge.