The Accidentals - Guadalupe Nettel Translator: Megan McDowell

Translator: Megan McDowell

Superbly translated by Sophie Hughes

But Amane falls in line with society's way of thinking and wants a regular 'clean' marriage

Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851

The Accidentals - Guadalupe Nettel Translator: Megan McDowellWhen an albatross strays too far from its home, or loses its bearings, it becomes an accidental, an unmoored wanderer. The protagonists of these eight stories each find the ordinary courses of their lives disrupted by an unexpected event and are pushed into unfamiliar terrain: a girl encounters her uncle in hospital, who was cast out of the family for reasons unknown; a menacing force hovers over a fracturing family on a rural holiday; a couple and