Emotionally Weird Av Kate Atkinson

<p><b>From the NUMBER 1 bestselling author of LIFE AFTER LIFE, SHRINES OF GAIETY and NORMAL RULES DON''T APPLY</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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, 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).<br><br>But strange things are happening. Why is Effie being followed? Why is everyone writing novels? Is someone killing the old people? And where is the mysterious yellow dog?<br><br><b>''Sends jolts of pleasure off the page...Kate Atkinson''s funniest foray yet...it is a work of Dickensian or even Shakespearean plenty'' SCOTSMAN</b><br><br><b>''A brilliant and profoundly original writer'' DAILY TELEGRAPH</b></p>