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Amber - thirtysomething and barefoot - shows up at the door of the Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting for the summer. She talks her way in. She tells nothing but lies. She stays for dinner. Writer Eve Smart things Amber is a student with whom her husband, Michael, is sleeping. Michael knows only that her car broke down. Astrid, age twelve, thinks she's her mother's friend. Son Magnus, seventeen, thinks she's an angel. As Amber insinuates herself into the family, the questions of who she is and how she'd come to be there drop away. A tour-de-force of literary improvisation, The Accidental explores the nature of truth, the role of chance, and the transformative power of storytelling.
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literary fiction, Literature, Summer resorts, Truthfulness and falsehood, Strangers, Social conditions, Fiction, Women biographers, psychological fiction, domestic fiction, Large type books, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, general, 18.05 English literature, Fiction, psychological, English literature, Young women, fictionPlaces
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2020, Penguin Books
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2006, Thorndike Press
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Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2005.
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The Accidental is a 2005 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith. It follows a middle-class English family who are visited by an uninvited guest, Amber, while they are on holiday in a small village in Norfolk. Amber's arrival has a profound effect on all the family members. Eventually she is cast out the house by the mother, Eve. But the consequences of her appearance continue even after the family has returned home to London.
The novel was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Man Booker Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and it won the Whitbread Award.
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