Kate Atkinson's Novel Emotionally Weird
My first review of the year was for Kate Atkinson's debut novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which inspired me to read more of my favorite authors' back catalogues. It seems fitting to end the year with a review of Atkinson's third novel, 'Emotionally Weird,' which was first published in 2000 and tells the story of Euphemia Stuart-Murray and her mother Nora, who live on a remote Scottish island. Effie is telling Nora about her life as a student in Dundee, where she lives with her Star Trek-obsessed boyfriend Bob. Effie, on the other hand, has concerns about her family history, and what she really wants is for Nora to reveal who her biological father is. Atkinson's sense of fun has always come through in her work, but 'Emotionally Weird' is the first of her books that can be described as a comic novel. The depiction of life at the University of Dundee in the early 1970s supposedly bears little resemblance to the Scottish higher education institution a