Imprint: Penguin
Published: 23/07/2020
ISBN: 9780241989111
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 181mm x 19mm x 111mm
Weight: 176g
RRP: £8.99
'My mother began me one evening in 1968 on a table in the café of the town's only cinema . . .'
One hot summer a stranger arrives at the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family. Intriguing, beguiling, arresting, Amber brings love, joy, pain and not a little upheaval, throwing the carefully ordered world of the Smarts into the air. They will be forever changed by Amber but how will they know whether it is for the bad, the good or something else entirely?
'Joyous ... writing as rapture, as giddy delight' The Times
'Funny, sexy, poignant, bewitching' Observer
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 23/07/2020
ISBN: 9780241989111
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 181mm x 19mm x 111mm
Weight: 176g
RRP: £8.99
Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious, exhilaratingly sharp-eyed . . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh
Joyous, a shot across the bows . . . writing as rapture, as giddy delight
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
A beguiling page-turner ... a brilliant creation. To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last
Smith's novels fizz with pyrotechnic prose, whirl-wind openings, bewitching invention
Exuberantly inventive ... at once dazzlingly bright and profoundly dark