Title: The Accidental
First published: 2005
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, Sexual and Gender Disorders
Places: Norfolk (England), Great Britain, Norfolk, England
People: Amber, Eve Smart, Michael Smart, Astrid Berenski, Magnus Berenski, Adam Berenski, Alhambra