The accidental

Description:

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.

subjects: 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, fiction

People: Amber,  Eve Smart,  Michael Smart,  Astrid Berenski,  Magnus Berenski,  Adam Berenski,  Alhambra

Places: Norfolk (England),  Great Britain,  Norfolk,  England