EMOTIONALLY WEIRD
Kate Atkinson
‘Funny, bold and memorable’
The
Times
On a
peat and heather island off the west coast of
Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large
mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories.
Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear,
like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie
tells of her life at college in Dundee, the land of cakes and
William Wallace, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with
Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed,
and to whom the Klingons are as real as the French and the Germans
(more real than the Luxemburgers). But strange things are
happening. Why is Effie being followed? Is someone killing the old
people? And where is the mysterious yellow
dog?
‘A truly comic novel - achingly
funny in parts - challenging and executed with wit and mischief
Meera Syal, The Express
‘Sends jolts of pleasure off the
page . . . Atkinson’s funniest foray yet... it is a work of Dickensian or even Shakespearean
plenty’ Catherine Lockerbie, The
Scotsman
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