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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 and William Wallace, 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 the Germans (more real than the…
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9 editions- Ebook · English · 2010Transworld · 9781409094616
- Paperback · English · 2001Picador USA · 9780312282219
- Audiobook · English · 2001Chivers Audio Books · 9780754053958
- Paperback · English · 2001Picador · 368 pages · 9780312279998
- Paperback · English · 2001Picador · 416 pages · 9780552997348
- Audiobook · English · 2000Chivers Audio Books · 9780754005469
LiteratureFictionMothers and daughtersStudentsFamiliesFiction, psychologicalFiction, sagasMothers and daughters, fiction




