The Accidental
$28.30
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
27 November 2020
Summary
The award-winning novel by Booker-shortlistee Ali Smith, now a Penguin Essential
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 identi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241989111 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241989116 |
| Author: | Ali Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 27 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 113mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
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 *
A beguiling page-turner … a brilliant creation. To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last * Independent *
Smith’s novels fizz with pyrotechnic prose, whirl-wind openings, bewitching invention * Observer *
Exuberantly inventive … at once dazzlingly bright and profoundly dark * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Ali Smith
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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