WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE 2018 A modern Irish literary gem for anyone who has felt like the odd one out. ampamp8216Inventive funny and ultimately movingampamp8217 GUARDIAN ampamp8216Wildly funnyampamp8217 THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ampamp8216Beguilingampamp8217 THE IRISH TIMES ampamp8216Delightfully quirkyampamp8217 THE IRISH INDEPENDENT Vivian is an oddball.An unemployed orphan living in the house of her recently deceased great aunt in North Dublin Vivian boldly goes through life doing things in her own peculiar way whether that be eating blue food cultivating ampamp8216her smellampamp8217 wishing people happy Christmas in April or putting an ad up for a friend called Penelope to check why it doesnampamp8217t rhyme with antelope. But behind her heroic charm and undeniable logic something isnampamp8217t right.