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 · The Accidental by Ali Smith (pp, Hamish Hamilton, £) Representing a child's voice in a novel is a tricky thing. One has to negotiate the Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Book Summary. Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Amber—thirtysomething and barefoot—shows up at the door of the Norfolk cottage that the .  · The Accidental. Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Jonathan Safran Foer has called her writing “thrilling.”. Jeanette Winterson has /5.

The Accidental is a 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 impact on all the family members. Eventually she is cast out the house by the mother, Eve. Ali Smith does a terrific job of creating a unique "voice" for each of the five characters, and whole chapters are dedicated to their individual points of view. A motif of that which is real juxtaposed to that which is manipulated to appear real runs throughout the novel. By Ali Smith. Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books, pp, $30, hardcover. There's such a profusion of lovely, unerring metaphor in Ali Smith's absorbing novel The Accidental that its pages seem.

Ali Smith is the author of many works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which was short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The Accidental by Ali Smith (pp, Hamish Hamilton, £) Representing a child's voice in a novel is a tricky thing. One has to negotiate the twin perils of overwriting and underwriting the part. The Accidental is a 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.