This title, from the acclaimed author of }Behind the Scenes at the Museum{, explores the nonsensical nature of language and meaning. It reached number 4) in the }Sunday Times{ bestseller list on original publication. Kate Atkinson is to tour when this is published in March. Funny, bold and memorable }The Times{ 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 more.
