Funny, heart-warming and ultimately triumphant, The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr by Frances Maynard is the perfect story for anyone who doesn’t quite fit in and for 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 floors, 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 . . .