Choices - Fiction
Ali Smith - The Accidental
 | The Accidental by Ali Smith 14-year-old Astrid is spending the summer in a Norfolk holiday home with her family. She knows nothing's going to happen all summer, so she's started filming the dawn breaking each morning on her Sony digital camera. Then Amber arrives one day.. and she just doesn't leave. Booker- and Orange – nominated, it finally won The Costa book Award (formerly Whitbread). The critics loved it - “an unqualified triumph, an unashamedly literary and post-modern work that revels in its own intelligence but is nevertheless enormously accessible and enjoyable; funny, touching and compelling” Stuart Maconie “an outstanding novel, at once dazzlingly bright and profoundly dark.” The Times |
