Alex Clark reviews The Accidental Metaphors involving film, images and light are common; in a virtuoso fragment, Amber retells her own life through the films of her childhood ("They didn't know I was a girl until I fainted and they unbuttoned my jockey shirt. We stopped the rail disaster by waving our petticoats at the train; my father was innocent in prison, my mother made ends meet… I used butter in Paris. I had a farm in Africa").
I'd like to see this novel made into a film. might prefer it as. and the end, with Eve taking on a role like Amber's, as the stranger, seemed in the reading (having skipped to that end after reading first third) especially like a movie ending though perhaps an obvious one of a certain sort.
Katie Owen reviews The Accidental In ways far subtler and more effective than Ian McEwan in his recent novel Saturday, Smith deals with middle-class complacency in the face of the Iraq War. How are we to engage with political events from which we feel so disassociated?
I am liking the Telegraph reviews. I like that they have more than one writer review a book. (2 here, posted within day of each other. 3 below of Ishiguro.)

lately reading recap: Other press galleys-Women in the Row Behind (tr. French),-Sparkle Life (why did Other press?). Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (new paper fiction) >looking at reviews of, found Morning News tob > Sam Lipsyte, Home Land &> (galley bedside) The Accidental. and imbtw those last 2, Perotta, Little Children (mood for wry suburban ~).