Emotionally Weird
Kate Atkinson
NEW
ISBN:038540882X
Doubleday, London, 2000. Hardback. 1st Edition, 1st Impression. Fine in fine dustwrapper. New. Unread copy. Tight and clean copy. Not inscribed or price-clipped.
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The 3rd novel from the author of 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' which won the Whitbread Prize.
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? In a brilliant comic narrative which explores the nonsensical nature of language and meaning, Kate Atkinson has created another magical masterpiece.
