![]() ![]() Each one thinks someone else in the family knows Amber, so no one seriously questions her presence. 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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