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 Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson
Description: ISBN 055299734X / Author: Kate Atkinson / Genre: Fiction / On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her ... more  Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson ... mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors, and tell each other stories. Strange things are happening. Why is Effie being followed? Is someone killing the old people?Newest Review: ... reminded me of the types of people in life that speak many words and say nothing. Reminded very much of this style of person ... more ... who uses words in a playful manner that somehow doesn't come off and that people giggle at rather than with, it was with some disdain that I carried on reading the book, knowing from small introductions within its pages that Kate Atkinson has indeed won The Whitbread First Novel Award, and had a critically acclaimed second novel, Human Croquet, published in 1997. I thought that somewhere within the covers of this book would lie wit, and wisdom in the use of the English language, and I wanted to be impressed.
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Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson: EMOTIONAL TWADDLE (903 words)
by thingywhatsit - written on 01/05/06 (Very useful, 149 readings)
Rating:
I am a pretty easily pleased reader. I like a good storyline, and a well written text that is not only believable but that pulls me into interaction between characters. Typically, of the Laurie Lee School of reading, I love description and the use of adjectives is important to me. When I bought this book, it promised "Funny, Bold and Memorable" in large letters on the front cover, and had a good write up from the Express and The Scotsman telling me that "it sends jolts of pleasure off the page" and that is is "truly comic and achingly funny". The story starts with a two page introduction to a murder story, articulately written as ...
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