Poking Seaweed with a Stick and Running Away
from the Smell
Alison Whitelock
PB 240 PP 210 x 135 ISBN 9781862547575
$24.95 Memoir / Humour Wakefield Press
Alison Whitelock dreamed of shooting her father
with a sawn-off shotgun. Her brother planned to use the longest
knife in the cutlery drawer, and her mother tried to poison him
with out-of-date tranquillisers. This wee book is a bittersweet
account of growing up in Scotland in the strange and brutal kingdom
we call home. But Poking Seaweed with a Stick is anything
but a tale of childhood suffering; it is an enchanted Scottish
tale that will have you smiling through your tears and laughing
till you cry.
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