Poking Seaweed with a Stick and Running Away from the Smell

<p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>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 Her brother planned to use the longest knife in the cutlery drawer and her mother tried to poison him with out-of-date tranquillisers.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 </span><em style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>Poking Seaweed with a Stick</em><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)> 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.</span></p>