Filled with the bestselling, award-winning author's trademark wordplay
and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining,
wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance
during a family's summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy
people.
Each of the Smarts*--parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the
youngest, daughter Astrid--*encounter Amber in his or her own
solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to see their lives
(and their life together) in a new light. Smith's narrative freedom and
exhilarating facility with language propel the novel to its startling,
wonderfully enigmatic conclusion.