The Accidental:

Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious, exhilaratingly sharp-eyed . . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh—Sunday TelegraphJoyous, a shot across the bows . . . writing as rapture, as giddy delight—The TimesAn astonishing book – funny and moving, playful and shocking. It is what one hopes for in a modern novel, and yet it confounds all expectations. It is complex. It is beautiful. It is exhilarating. It is fiction at its most artful —Financial TimesA beguiling page-turner … a brilliant creation. To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last—IndependentSmith's novels fizz with pyrotechnic prose, whirl-wind openings, bewitching invention—ObserverExuberantly inventive … at once dazzlingly bright and profoundly dark—Sunday Times