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Also by Ali Smith:

Gliff, February 2025
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Companion Piece, May 2022
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The Accidental, April 2007
Paperback

The Accidental
Ali Smith

Anchor
April 2007
On Sale: April 10, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 1400032180
EAN: 9781400032181
Paperback
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Literature and Fiction

The Accidental is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts–parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid–encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to se their lives (and their life together) in a new light. Smith’s exhilarating facility with language, her narrative freedom, and her chromatic wordplay propel the novel to its startling, wonderfully enigmatic conclusion.

Ali Smith’s acclaimed novel won the prestigious Whitbread Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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