THE ACCIDENTAL BY ALI SMITH (SHORTLISTED FOR MAN BOOKER IN SOUTH AFRICA

I was born in the year of the Supersonic, the era of the multistory, multivitamin, multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and women who could be bionic, when jump-jets were Harrier, when QE2 was Cunard, when thirty-eight feet tall the Princess Margaret stood stately in her hoverpad, the annlee erotique was only thirty aircushioned minutes away and everything went at twice the speed of sound.  I opened my eyes.  It was all in colour, it didn't look like Kansas anymore.  The students were on the barricades, the mode was maxi, the Beatles were transcendental, they opened a shop.  It was Britain.  It was great." Ali Smith's Hotel World was shortlisted for a Booker Prize in .  In this new novel she goes even further in developing her unique and brilliant literary voice. Soft cover, good condition.  303 pages.