From the author of A Novel Bookstore comes further proof of a prodigious and remarkable literary imagination at work. In An Accident in August,Laurence Cosse takes one of the most famous news events of recent world history as the starting point for a novel as intelligent as it is gripping.Lady Diana, Dodi al Fayed, and Henri Paul are long buried. Today, the paparazzi are busy hounding other celebrities. But fourteen years after the accident that cost the lives of all three, one person involved in the tragedy remains unidentified: the driver of a white Fiat Uno that was in the alma tunnel at the time of the accident. In Cosse's spellbinding novel, the driver of this car, a young French woman on her way home from work that fatal night, sees her life thrown into turmoil when, scared and alone, she flees the scene. While there are no immediate repercussions resulting from her flight, as news...
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