Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson Groundswell Speaker 2024 re-encounters Cecilia

re-encounters Cecilia

In her perceptive and affecting new novel

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Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson Groundswell Speaker 2024 re-encounters CeciliaOn 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, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out