Letting someone you love go is hard, having them taken from you is even harder. The Accident explores the ramifications that reverberate through a community when a car, carrying five close friends, smashes into a brick wall, one balmy summer's evening. The friends and their families have their lives, loves and loyalties torn apart by the crash. The book looks at what survives and what dies that night and reveals the role each of the characters played in the origins and the aftermath of the accident. The questions that haunt The Accident are who was to blame and what price will they pay?