The Accidental

Penguin Ink

By: Ali Smith

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Paperback | 19 September 2011 | Edition Number 1

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I was born in a trunk. It was during the matinée 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.

About The Author

Ali Smith is the author of several fiction novels, including the novel Hotel World, which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002. Her story collections include Free Love, which won the Saltire First Book Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award, and The Whole Story and Other Stories. Her latest novel is How to be Both. Born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1962, Smith now lives in Cambridge, England.

Industry 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 *

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