The Accidental
The first book of season 2 will be The Accidental by Ali Smith.ABOUT ALI SMITH
o Scottish-born, now lives and writes in Cambridgeo Her novels explore grand themes using a shifting perspective between characters
o Smith's earlier novel Hotel World was short-listed for both The Booker and The Orange Prize in 2001.
o In 2005, The Accidental won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award which is aimed at celebrating works that are enjoyable to read while having high literary merit.
o Also in 2005, The Accidental was short-listed for The Booker aside authors Zadie Smith and Kazuo Ishaguro.
o Opening gay, Ali Smith has been with her partner for 17 years
THE ACCIDENTAL: SYNOPSIS
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 identities and a ruthlessly honest look at the silent cracks that can develop unnoticed in relationships over time.
REVIEWS
"Ms. Smith is a wonderful ventriloquist, adept at throwing her voice into an astonishing array of characters....[S]he captures their thoughts, their dream lives, their sense of their place in the world with perfect and unwavering pitch." Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"Smith captures the speech and thoughts of each character with a real, compassionate kind of virtuosity." San Francisco Chronicle
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