Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious, exhilaratingly sharp-eyed . . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh
Sunday Telegraph
Joyous, a shot across the bows . . . writing as rapture, as giddy delight
The Times
An 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 <i> </i>
Financial Times
A beguiling page-turner ... a brilliant creation. To read <i>The Accidental</i> is to be excited from first to last
Independent
Smith's novels fizz with pyrotechnic prose, whirl-wind openings, bewitching invention
Observer
Exuberantly inventive ... at once dazzlingly bright and profoundly dark
Sunday Times