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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