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Emotionally Weird

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Ahilarious and utterly original novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Life After Life.

On a weather-beaten island off the 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 real father was....more

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Published July 6th 2001 by Picador (first published June 27th 2000)

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Oct 01, 2011 Greg rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, girls-girls-girls

Can you see the cover of Emotionally Weird that I read? I don't know, but if it's a peach colored cover with a sort of crappy drawing of a redheaded woman smoking and a dog then you are seeing it? Or maybe you are seeing the new cover, which is dark and fits with the covers of Kate Atkinson's later novels? Or maybe you see the British covers with the big and dopey but cute looking dog on the cover? I read the peach colored one, with the girly script. The one that screams early to mid-ought chick...more Can you see the cover of Emotionally Weird that I read? I don't know, but if it's a peach colored cover with a sort of crappy drawing of a redheaded woman smoking and a dog then you are seeing it? Or maybe you are seeing the new cover, which is dark and fits with the covers of Kate Atkinson's later novels? Or maybe you see the British covers with the big and dopey but cute looking dog on the cover? I read the peach colored one, with the girly script. The one that screams early to mid-ought chick-lit. The one that would make you think this is about a young woman who frets and worries that her almost perfect life is not a hundred percent perfect because she hasn't yet married the most amazing man in the world, but until then she will shop for shoes and complain about her glamourous job. That the author is Scottish and not English might be a hint that this isn't the case, but shouldn't England's neighbors to the North be able to produce self-absorbed novels for young and privileged young ladies?

Normally, I believe that the maxim you can't judge a book by it's cover is bullshit. You can judge almost every book by it's cover, the cover is usually an excellent signpost to what you are getting into. Yeah, every now and then you'll have a book with some amazing Chip Kidd cover that turns out to be garbage, but it's rare that you are totally mistaken about what kind of book you are getting yourself into. Here though, the cover is totally misleading. I don't think there is a single shoe bought in the book, the narrator does pine for an unknown mystery man who she thinks it would be fabulous to get to make out with, but those moments of wistful yearning are just a few pages of the 350 that make up the novel. The rest of the novel is something that is much more Broom of the System era David Foster Wallace than anything by Sophie Kinsella or her ilk.

You wouldn't expect a book with this cover to make jokes about Barthes and Adorno.

At first when I started reading this book I took pains to hide the cover when reading it on the subway. I felt my already low masculinity was in danger of completely evaporating. But after a day or so of reading it, I stopped worrying about silly things like that, because even if I might be judged silently by strangers I knew that I was reading a very un-chick book, and a book that is quite good. So damn you judging strangers!

The novel. The novel and the nature of telling stories is sort of what is going on in this book. The basic gist, without giving away too much is a young woman is telling a story, which may be true or may be a novel she's working on, to a woman who may be her mother or may not be. The story is about a few weeks in the winter of 1972 at a college in Dundee, Scotland. The narrator is an English major (is that what they call them over there across the pond?) who is writing a detective novel for a creative writing class, so the story breaks every now and then to have some of the awful student novel given in the text. Along with the interjection of this novel within the story, the 'real world' intrudes on the text too, with dialogue between the narrator and the woman who may or may not be her mother, and to give one last tweak to the stories within stories structure the woman who may or may not be the narrator's mother has her own story to tell.

This sounds like a mess, but the way Atkinson handles these stories within stories is not nearly as difficult as I'm making it sound, it's more confusing to think about then to actually read. The use of different fonts for different narrative levels keeps the reader from getting lost.

Like DFW's first novel, this is at heart a comic novel. It's more of a 'college' novel than DFW's, but you could almost imagine that the Amherst that shows up in Broom of the System exists in the same universe as Atkinson's Dundee. It's a lampoon of theory and the personalities that inhabit academia. It's filled with jokes mocking (post)structural theorists, student activists, and the swelled up egos of self-centered professors. Good stuff, but unfortunately even with the new 'darker' cover I don't think this book is ever going to call out to the type of reader who would enjoy it most. (less)

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Apr 11, 2008 daysgoby rated it 3 of 5 stars

My father used to write for a student's journal in college back in the sixties. Students would send in short stories full of twisty, tormented characters who wore black and smoked a lot, their general air of dejection and resolution that the world was ending soon the most striking thing about them. This book (and also the other Atkinson I picked up, One Good Turn) were populated with such characters - people who didn't give a damn anymore and just wanted help getting through the night.

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Nov 18, 2009 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm about 2/3 of the way through and I have guffawed and giggled hysterically more while reading this than I have in the past five years altogether. I've HAD to read passages out loud to my poor husband when all he wanted to do was sleep or check his emails. My dog and cat wonder what the heck is causing my bizarre behavior, as I've been hitherto a calmish person. I sure hope Atkinson can bring this to a good conclusion, but even if she can't, I'll be grateful for what she's done so far. Review...more

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May 11, 2009 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In this clever and humorous novel, Kate Atkinson deploys various post-modern novel techniques (bickering narrators, meta-discussion of the story being told, malleable text, and various novels-within-novels set out in varied--and clever--typefaces) to skewer the academy and its fascination with, well, the post-modern novel.

Effie and her mother (or, rather, "mother") Nora are on a desolate, ruined Scottish island telling their life stories, while Effie's story of university life in 1972--complete...more

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Jun 14, 2007 Trin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, english-lit

Emotionally Weird fullfilled the promise of Behind the Scenes at the Museum much better than Human Croquet did. As usual, Atkinson has a unique touch, and this story, much of which revolves around a bunch of college students in a creative writing class, seems tailor-made for English major-me. I adore the excerpts from the various students' works-in-progress; delivered by a lesser writer, they would seem clichéd, but in Atkinson's hand, each one is wonderfully awful and hilarious.

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Dec 07, 2010 Kirsty Darbyshire added it · review of another edition

I really enjoyed Behind the Scenes at the Museum for its twisted up story and uncertain narration but I could never get into Atkinson's second book Human Croquet, I must try again. I picked up this book in the book shop in two minds about whether to try it and it grabbed me instantly and I've really enjoyed reading it.

As in Museum I was never quite sure where this story was going or what the main storyline was but the writing pulled me in and carried me along on a tide of interesting happenings

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Apr 18, 2013 Joe rated it 5 of 5 stars

At times the epithet “clever” is used to belittle a novel’s worth. Certainly not in this case, for Atkinson’s cleverness plays an intricate role in Emotionally Weird’s theme of “just what is fiction.” A student in a class I taught commented after reading this book that the novel was having a dialogue with itself. That is perfectly correct. Everything--from the narrator Effie’s paper on Henry James’s assessment of Middlemarch as forsaking plot, to Nora’s urgent comments to hurry the plot along, t...more

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Jul 31, 2012 Kathleen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Kate Atkinson was recommended to me. At the library I picked up the only book by the author, Emotionally Weird. It was a weird book. From amazon:

A thoroughly original and hilarious novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum.

On a weather-beaten island off the 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 want...more

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Jun 02, 2012 Erin rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

Emotionally Weird is... weird.

In the beginning, I was drawn in by the complexity of the stories and the narrators telling them. Things were interesting and progressed steadily enough so that before I knew it I had reached the middle of the story. At that point, if you count the stories being told by Effie's classmates, I think there were about seven plots going at once. I was lost, and I'm pretty sure my brain nearly exploded, but I continued on, having already invested so much in the story.

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Feb 07, 2012 Sibyl rated it 2 of 5 stars

I was disappointed and it was an effort to get through to the end.

Although Kate Atkinson is rarely dull, this novel is meandering and comes perilously close to being self-indulgent.

It's as if the writer is having so much fun recalling her own time as an English student, satirising her would-be-radical classmates and dysfunctional lecturers, that she loses sight of the fact that this territory has been thoroughly covered by other novelists. (It's like a post-modernist take on David Lodge.) Despit...more

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Jan 29, 2012 Karen maslen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The latest magical mystery tour de force from one of Britain’s most original novelists – winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award for Behind the Scenes at the Museum.

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, such as the identity of her real father – variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells o...more

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Jan 14, 2012 Nancy rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the last of my reviews in my mad dash to read all the pre-Jackson Brodie books and, of them all, I think I enjoyed this one the most, at least if my repeated snorts of amusement were anything to go by. Descriptions, turns or phrase and character comments, deftly and sharply written, and downright amusing.

The story has the disturbing elements present in her other books, but they were revealed later in the book and they were more third-person descriptions which made for a more indirect imp...more

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Jul 28, 2011 Derek Baldwin rated it 3 of 5 stars

This might be an entertaining spoof of postmodernism, but then again maybe not. Great fun to read. While the criss-crossing narratives could be a little tricky to keep track of at times, they all knitted together in the end. As the novel reached its denouement the reliability of the narrators completely fell apart, events were rewritten/deleted, burning a page of text meant that the events described were reversed... oh it all got very silly. But then the threads came back together again. I enjoy...more

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Jan 25, 2011 Josh Ang rated it 2 of 5 stars

What a waste of her incredible talent! Atkinson's wry humor and ascerbic descriptions were perfect for the collection of short stories 'Not the End of the World' as well as comic-detective fiction novel 'One Good Turn'.

However, 'Emotionally Weird' becomes a tangled self-conscious mess as Atkinson tries to weave those elements in with the use of the frame narrative technique and an unreliable narrator, Effie. The interlocutions between her and her mother, Nora, sometimes jar, rather than add to...more

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Feb 24, 2010 Marcia rated it 4 of 5 stars

I found this a delightful book. It was so much fun to read! The story is one of a mother and daughter who take refuge on an island off the coast of Scotland. The daughter, Effie, was born on the island but taken away as a newborn and has never been back. Her mother, Nora, has also not been back since Effie's birth. While on the island, Effie tells about her life in college. Nora complains how many characters are in Effie's stories. And, there are tons of them. Yet, I would not want to eliminate...more

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Jun 22, 2009 Adam rated it 3 of 5 stars

Note to self: if I have found an author who instantly becomes one of my favorite detective novelists (in her Jackson Brodie series (almost just wrote Jackson Browne, which is just downright stupid), a character that I expected to be a detective in the Robert Parker's Spenser mold but actually is much more of a sympathetic character (exchange Spenser's love of food and women with Brodie's love-from-a-distance relationship with his daughter and a constant ability/failure to get tangled in the live...more

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Sep 06, 2011 Karen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Well this is the weirdest book I have read so far this year. Even thinking about trying to describe the plot has me scratching my head and thinking where on Earth can I begin?

Effie, our lead character, is staying with her "mother" Nora on a tiny Scottish island in their inherited (but rapidly decaying) family holiday home and they tell each other stories of their life to pass the time. Effie's focuses on her life as a student at the University of Dundee. Nora slowly reveals the secret of Effie's...more

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Dec 18, 2008 marg rated it 3 of 5 stars

This novel had a lot of four star moments, but many two star as well, so I rest at three.
It was in many ways the best and worst of Atkinson's style - once again you are on some sort of magical realism journey, and because she is so talented at weaving a hillarious narrative I just went along with it, which is something that amazes me about her because few authors can get me to do that.
That being said, it was an extreme example of her plotlessness, and all the more so because the overall premise...more This novel had a lot of four star moments, but many two star as well, so I rest at three.
It was in many ways the best and worst of Atkinson's style - once again you are on some sort of magical realism journey, and because she is so talented at weaving a hillarious narrative I just went along with it, which is something that amazes me about her because few authors can get me to do that.
That being said, it was an extreme example of her plotlessness, and all the more so because the overall premise is someone who is spinning a story alongside her mother who constantly pesters her, when is something going to happen? And though I did not mind the ostensible lack of plot in her previous works, given that the characters were so fresh and the insight and humor so enjoyable, here I found that the pace got annoying and the overall lack of focus irritating.
Something else that both helps and hurts Atkinson is her narrator's passivity - this was also true in Behind the Scenes and Human Croquet, you feel like the heroine is sort of shlepped into all kinds of situations and eras without her doing anything about it - yet this same detachment inspires a wonderful narrative observing all the quirks around her in a most effective way - here it was more of the same but it got me annoyed more often - she keeps talking about how she has to write an essay for her teacher (ok perhaps this struck a particular chord with me) and yet she 'finds herself' in all sorts of random baby sitting jobs (that involve more adults than babies) and cars and experiences.
However, Atkinson also delivers her usual dose of wonderful characters who are so well sketched and so idiosyncratic that the book is still enjoyable, not to mention that so many characters are involved in two things close to my heart that I found particularly funny - snooty pseudo intellectual academia that makes no sense and attempts at writing the Next Great Novel, which I appreciated. In many ways this is a book about writing, so I guess it makes sense that nothing actually happens. But still.
Anyway overall it was at times very readable but I would list it below the other works I have read, which I found much more engaging. (less)

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Oct 12, 2010 Teresa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Although Kate Atkinson is probably best known for her excellent crime novels about former police detective Jackson Brodie, I think I prefer her non-crime novels. It’s a tough comparison for me to make because I’ve listened to three of her crime novels and read two of her non-crime books in print, so the experience is different. But at this point, probably because I’ve just come off the sheer joy of reading it, Emotionally Weird is my favorite.

Effie, the first-person narrator of Emotionally Weird...more Although Kate Atkinson is probably best known for her excellent crime novels about former police detective Jackson Brodie, I think I prefer her non-crime novels. It’s a tough comparison for me to make because I’ve listened to three of her crime novels and read two of her non-crime books in print, so the experience is different. But at this point, probably because I’ve just come off the sheer joy of reading it, Emotionally Weird is my favorite.

Effie, the first-person narrator of Emotionally Weird, is 21 years old. As the novel begins, we learn that her mother, Nora, is a virgin (“trust me,” says Effie, immediately after this opening). Effie, named for her mother’s sister, knows nothing about her extended family or about how she came to be Nora’s daughter. She has come to an isolated island, a piece of family property handed down to her mother even though Nora says “the idea of land ownership is absurd, not to mention politically incorrect. But, whether she likes it or not, she is empress of all she surveys. Although that is mostly water.”

Most of the book is not about Effie’s life with Nora, however. It’s about her life as a literature student at Dundee University. She’s a half-hearted student at best. She seems to spend most of her time going to class as little as possible and putting off doing her assignments, which include a paper on George Eliot, one on Henry James, and a crime novel for her creative writing course. Her professors are all quirky and eccentric, and the students are too. Frankly, there are too many students to keep track of, a point that Nora makes when she suddenly pipes in early in the book.

Yes, my friends, we have here a work of meta-fiction. Effie tells her story, Nora interrupts. Effie comments on her choices. Effie asks Nora to tell her own story, to clue Effie in on their own past. Nora dodges. Effie remains the main narrator, with Nora serving only as an interlocutor, and Atkinson uses different typefaces to make the shifts in time clear.

Eventually, the story does appear to spin out of control, with too many characters, too many motifs, too many threads, but that’s kind of the point. This is a book about the telling of tales, not about a university student and her mother, although their relationship is important—and their story does have a satisfying ending. The idea of story is emphasized through the appearance of samples of the various characters' writing throughout the pages. (Each set in its own appropriate typeface.)
Somehow, with the magic of her voice, Atkinson makes this all work. Instead of feeling overstuffed, this book felt filled with delights and surprises—something new on every page. And even when the story appears to be out of Effie’s control, it seems to be clearly in Atkinson’s control.

With Atkinson, though, the story is scarcely the point. I just love her voice. I could fill this review with one comical quote after another. There’s something about Atkinson’s humor that suits me perfectly. I know I’ve mentioned before that I have a low tolerance for quirkiness, but Atkinson makes quirk work.

See my complete review on my blog.(less)

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Oct 18, 2012 David rated it 3 of 5 stars

Before Kate Atkinson wrote her four highly acclaimed Jackson Brodie novels, she wrote Emotionally Weird. Whilst this book is mainly narrated by Effie (she is marooned on an isolated Scottish island and is telling her "mother, who isn't her mother" a story about her time as a student in Dundee) there is one character who is a private detective. As the strange Professor Cousins remarks "There once was a Private Dick/Who went by the name of Chick". So here is the typical and irresistible mix of hum...more

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Sep 05, 2011 Ruthiella rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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“But don’t you think, Archie”, Professor Cousins said mildly, that really all literature is about the search for identity?”. I didn’t enjoy this as much as I have Atkinson’s other books. Emotionally Weird is a meta-fiction mix of genres: a story, within a story, within a story; a satirical farce, a detective story, gothic mystery and a quest for identity, peppered with lots of Scottish dialect, UK pop cultural references and odd goings on. The book centers on Effie, who in an effort to coax the...more

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Apr 25, 2011 Shay rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: grown-up

Weird is about right. I was a student in the 70s, and really enjoyed some of the topical references - caramac bars and lifeboats stickers come to mind. (I was blissfully unaware of a drug scene though.) It is really about everyone having a story, and two main stories are being unfolded. I agree with Nora, there are too many people in the main character's story. I was also very disorientated by some plot reversals - I have not known this in a book before, and, while I can see it is clever, I don'...more

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Jan 21, 2009 Jen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-about-books, comedy, mystery-crime-detective, womens-fiction

Part comic novel, part crime novel, part troubled family past and ALL meta-storytelling. Effie, our heroine, is stranded in the middle of a raging storm on a remote Scottish isle with the person she has always believed was her mother. Each of them tell their own stories, with Effie doing the majority of the storytelling, both about her recent experiences at university and the crime novel she's writing for her creative writing class. Nora's story, while much shorter in words, is really the crux o...more

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Feb 13, 2008 meliss rated it 4 of 5 stars

Kate Atkinson has a great knack for writing characters that can make you laugh out loud. This one is a great adventure of the ordinary. It explores the relationship and history of a quirky young woman and her mother while doing a scathing job poking fun at literary analysis and "real" writing. Lighter content than Behind the Scenes at the Museum, but well worth the read.

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Jun 28, 2012 Gail Goetschius rated it 4 of 5 stars

Emotionally Weird was a really fun book. I have read and enjoyed Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie series and was delighted by her sense of humor in this spoof. Efie, the main character, and I were both 21 year old English majors in 1972 and I'm sure that added to my enjoyment . Her spot on descriptions of campus radicals, self impressed academics, and eccentric classmates were very funny. While the characters were stock (the Trekie, the druggies, the hard nosed feminists, the earth mother, religi...more

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Nov 18, 2011 Crossfinn rated it 5 of 5 stars

This novel is so "out there" that halfway through I began wondering in a paranoid fashion whether Atkinson was going to appear from behind the text and say "Are you still reading this?" It's mainly (apparently?) about a group of students and faculty in the English program at the University of Dundee, who careen around randomly like pinballs and expend a great deal of energy doing virtually nothing...but that's just the beginning. The main story is being narrated by a young woman to her mother; t...more

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Mar 15, 2013 Lori Brack rated it 4 of 5 stars

I think it's more of a 3 and a half, but whole stars are all on offer here.

I am a devotee of Kate Atkinson and even though it's Ides of March-y, I have just finished reading Emotionally Weird. It is neither. And I'm not sure as some other reviewers are that one of the multiple stories is true, or being told, or being written. I read it as parallel, simultaneous, and fantastic all at once.

This is a novel about novels, about fiction, and about life and fiction and the strongest thing I can say tod...more

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Mar 18, 2011 Mary-Beth rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

What isn't there to love about Kate Atkinson?

Devotees of my reviews will know that Kate Atkinson is one of my favorite authors; her mystery novels beginning with "Case Histories" are extremely well-written. While I had read some of her previous novels (including "Behind the Scenes at the Museum"), I hadn't read this creatively told novel of a 20ish year old university student in Scotland. She's foundering at school and in her personal life (her live-in boyfriend is a loser), and trying to figure...more

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Aug 09, 2010 Femke rated it 1 of 5 stars

Effie Andrews vertelt een langdradig levensverhaal zonder boeiende gebeurtenissen aan haar wereldvreemde moeder Nora. Het boek is een aaneenschakeling van absurde flarden tekst, afwisselend uit het leven van Effie, dat van haar moeder en stukken uit Effie's misdaadroman "Het noodlot slaat toe". Tientallen personages worden kort en oppervlakkig toegelicht, sommigen worden in het laatste hoofdstuk gebruikt om tot een absurd en zogezegd onthullend einde te komen. Dikwijls leek de nadruk vooral te l...more

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Apr 02, 2007 elizabeth rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: eternal students

My favorite book by one of my favorite authors. I want Professor Cousins to be my grandad and take me kite-flying. Brings back fond memories of Scotland and crime solving. Okay maybe just Scotland.

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Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and has been a critically acclaimed international bestselling author ever since.

She is the author of a collection of short stories, Not the End of the World, and of the critically acclaimed novels Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Case Histories, and...more

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“I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.” — 9 people liked it

“Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.” — 6 people liked it

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