.. accidental - ali smith ..
so she borrowed the plot, such as it is, from a Pasolini movie -- Teorema (1968), with an unforgettable Terence Stamp in the lead role. -Adam Begley, The New York Observer via www.complete-review.com/reviews/popgb/smitha3.htm also: The close-up is Smith's forte. Her long shots need a little work." - Laura Miller, The New York Times Book Review -writes for Salon too-

Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema (based on his novel of the same title). In that film, a beautiful and fantastically charismatic young man arrives out of nowhere to disrupt and transform the lives of a bourgeois family and their maid. Of the five people seduced by the stranger (the role played by Stamp), only the maid is not destroyed.
Threepenny: Sigrid Nunez re Ali Smith Sigrid Nunez’s fifth novel, The Last of Her Kind, came out in January of 2006. ah. by bedside. two girls, statue garden..

Although the chapters take us inside the minds of English lecturer Michael Smart, his author wife Eve and their offspring Magnus (17) and Astrid (12), the third-person stream-of-consciousness voice is much the same in each. and of Amber/Alhambra also.
Scotsman.com Living - Books - Magical drama out of thin air

"He did it. They did it. Then she did it. She killed herself" - Magnus. Faulkner. [my mother is a.] or? He. then I. then we.