The Accidental - Hardcover

Talking her way into the Norfolk cottage that the Smart family is renting for the summer, Amber, an enigmatic, lying con artist insinuates herself into the lives of Eve, her husband Michael, and their children, forcing them to reexamine the events of their lives through her perceptions and forever altering the world around them. 50,000 first printing.

Ali Smith is the author of six works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which was short–listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002. Her story collections include Free Love, which won the Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award and a Scottish Arts Council Award, and The Whole Story and Other Stories. Born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1962, Smith now lives in Cambridge, England.