num_pages: 306
description: Arresting and wonderful, The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There, a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the light.A novel about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, The Accidental explores the nature of truth, the role of fate and the power of storytelling.
language: English
title: The Accidental
titlecomplete: The Accidental
characters: Michael Smart, Amber, Eve Smart, Magnus Smart, Astrid Smart
genres: Fiction, Family, British Literature, Scotland, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, 21st Century, Literary Fiction, Unfinished
ratings_count: 12408
places: Norfolk, England
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books
publisher: Penguin Books