EMOTIONALLY WEIRD SOUS L AILE DU BIZARRE

The brilliant and profound second novel from the three-times Costa prizewinner and number one bestseller Kate Atkinson.'Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns' ObserverOnce it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor.But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all.But Isobel Fairfax, who drops into pockets of time and out again, knows about the past. She is sixteen and waiting for the return of her mother - the thin, dangerous Eliza with her scent of nicotine, Arpège and sex, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest.

11 février 1910 : Ursula Todd naît et meurt aussitôt. 11 février 1910 : Ursula Todd naît et meurt, quelques minutes plus tard, le cordon ombilical enroulé autour du cou. 11 février 1910 : Ursula Todd naît le cordon ombilical menace de l'étouffer, mais Ursula survit. Ursula naîtra et mourra de nombreuses fois encore, à cinq ans, noyée ; à douze ans, dans un accident domestique ; ou encore à vingt ans, dans un café de Munich, juste après avoir tiré sur Adolf Hitler et changé ainsi, peut-être, la face du monde.