The Accidental

“Astonishing… . Vivid and affecting… . Wonderfully supple, jazzy.” -“The New York Times” “Persistently sparkling pages…of startling and clarifying emotional power… . It casts a spell.” –“The Atlantic Monthly” “Completely captivating… . Thoroughly charming and melodic… .Devilishly lovely.” –“The Boston Globe” “Beautifully executed… . A few pages [in] and you begin to remember how much fun it is to put yourself in the hands of a skilled, majestically confident writer… . Delightful.” –“The New York Observer” “Brims with wit, humor, and energy.” –“The Christian Science Monitor”” Astonishing… . Vivid and affecting… . Wonderfully supple, jazzy.” - “The New York Times” ” Persistently sparkling pages…of startling and clarifying emotional power… . It casts a spell.” – “The Atlantic Monthly” ” Completely captivating… . Thoroughly charming and melodic… .Devilishly lovely.” – “The Boston Globe” ” Beautifully executed… . A few pages [in] and you begin to remember how much fun it is to put yourself in the hands of a skilled, majestically confident writer… . Delightful.” – “The New York Observer” ” Brims with wit, humor, and energy.” – “The Christian Science Monitor”from the United Kingdom: “An outstanding novel … Exuberantly inventive … Beautifully formed and astringently intelligent … It is as good as anyone who has been watching the progress of this talented author could possibly have hoped.”-“The Sunday Times” “Funny, sexy, poignant, surprising, playful … Although the novel dazzles with the richness of language and ideas, it retains a delicious lightness.”-“The Observer” “Spectacular … Allusive, ambitious and formally acrobatic … Original, restless, formally and morally challenging, [Ali Smith] remains a writer who resists definition.”-“The Times Literary Supplement” “Amazing … Dazzling … Smith is one of our greatest imaginative writers.”-“The Scotsman” “Joyous … Smith plays dizzying games with her story and language; she bends and buckles her prose, breathes fire into it, lets it cool, swirls it up in unimaginable shapes. This is writing as pure rapture, as giddy delight.”-“The Times”

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Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of Spring, Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, How to be both, Shire, Artful, There but for the, The first person and other stories, Girl Meets Boy, The Accidental, The whole story and other stories, Hotel World, Other stories and other stories, Like and Free Love. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Bailey’s Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 and Winter was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2018. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

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