book I forgot

My friend Darlene and I were having dinner and I was trying to think of this book: Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson...a genuinely great novel . I originally listened to this on tape and the narrator was outstanding. Effie and her mother, Nora, tell each stories -- many involving ghosts and the pull of Scottish history on today's Scots. Effie tries to find out who her father is and who she herself is, while navigating her way into adulthood. Clever, engrossing and humorous in all the right places. Her new one is Case Histories, also involving families, which I was able to pick up at ALA, but never managed to read! I think I will shift it to the top of the reading pile...