Emily Tate lives within spitting distance of Tate's Kelp Factory on Tate Island with the entire (not to mention rather peculiar) Tate family. But when Grandpa Tate pops his Tate clogs and leaves 10 per cent of the factory to young Emily, she is catapulted into a frenzy of business deals and commercial decisions that will affect the family's future, alongside her handsome and rather glamorous cousin John.
The question is, could John really be the talented and sophisticated hunk with the mobile phone she has been waiting for all her life, or is she destined to spend the rest of her days wading through seaweed?
Linda Aranson's Kelp is gloriously quirky and the adorable, bespectacled Emily is a dream of a character. With her charmingly, and occasionally cringeworthy, offbeat family firmly in tow Emily's fight to stamp her mark on an ever more complicated world makes Kelp truly a laugh-out-loud read. Hilarious. --Susan Harrison