Annotation
From the author of "Hotel World"--shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize--comes an inventive and thought-provoking novel about a chance encounter that irrevocably changes a family's understanding of itself.
Awards
2005 Costa Book Awards
Characters
| Name | Amber |
| Gender | Female |
| Name | Smart, Eve |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Traits | Married |
| Mother | |
| Name | Smart, Michael |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Traits | Married |
| Father | |
| Name | Smart, Astrid |
| Gender | Girl |
| Name | Smart, Magnus |
| Gender | Male |
| Genre | Fiction Psychological Suspense |
| Topics | Summer Chance meetings Strangers Lies Accidents |
| Setting | Norfolk, Enlgand London, England |