For anyone who doesn't quite fit in . . .
. . . And everyone who chooses not to
Elvira Carr is twenty-seven, neuro-atypical, and has never lived alone. But her father - who she suspects was in the secret service - is dead, and when her mother has a stroke and is taken into care, Elvira suddenly finds herself home alone.
In order to cope, Elvira - who knows a lot about biscuits and floor coverings, but not much about life - develops a list of seven rules for interacting with others. Not even her rules can help her, however, when she's faced with solving a mystery she didn't even know existed . . .
'Big-hearted and charming . . . Elvira manages to conjure up the one thing we could all do with: a cheat sheet for the painful puzzle of everyday life' James Hannah, author of The A to Z of You and Me