Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson

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. Paperback softback