Emotionally WeirdFrom the bestselling author of the Whitbread prizewinner 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, like who her father was variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, the land of cakes