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The Accidental
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  • Published: 27 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241989111
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $34.99

The Accidental

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7 Nov 2013
Audiobook
11 Feb 2021
Paperback
27 Nov 2020
Paperback
1 May 2006
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The award-winning novel by Booker-shortlistee Ali Smith, now a Penguin Essential

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.
  • Published: 27 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241989111
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Ali Smith

Ali Smith is a teacher and author, born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Ali’s life-long study of yoga, meditation, and mindfulness has served as the impetus for his pioneering work bringing trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness to underserved youth–and influencing education curriculum worldwide. He is the longtime Executive Director of the Holistic Life Foundation, a non-profit organization he co-founded in 2001 that brings yoga and mindfulness to schools and is the Co-Owner of The Involution Group, founded in 2019. Let Your Light Shine is his second book. Learn more at www.LetYourLightShineBook.com
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Praise for The Accidental

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