![]() ![]() ![]() They are on vacation in a rental house in Norfolk, and in walks Amber, a 30-something woman who wheedles her way into their lives. ![]() Smith tells her story from four different perspectives, each one appearing three different times: Eve, her second husband Michael, and two children from her first marriage, 17-year-old Magnus and 12-year-old Astrid. It shows how little solid information we have about anything and how our most prized opinions may be based on very incomplete knowledge. I’ve always liked books that tell the same story from multiple perspectives because you can see how people react to the same situation in different ways or how they interpret a situation differently given their varied preoccupations and levels of knowledge. Mostly, I liked the book because of the writing, the way Smith captures the consciousness of each character. I finished Ali Smith’s The Accidental the other night, and I’m so glad I finally got around to reading it I’m not quite sure I like the ending, but that’s not a big deal with a book that is not plot driven. ![]()
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