![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, dazzled by her seeming exoticism, the Smarts begin to examine the accidents of their lives through the searing lens of Ambers perceptions. Son Magnus, age seventeen, thinks shes an angel.Īs Amber insinuates herself into the family, the questions of who she is and how shes come to be there drop away. Daughter Astrid, age twelve, thinks shes her mothers 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. 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.Īmberthirtysomething and barefootshows up at the door of the Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting for the summer. ![]()
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