Product Description

Emily is 14-years-old and yearns to be a business whizz. But she lives on an island and seaweed-processing is the family business. Her grandfather leaves the factory to her aunt and her uncle John - who turns out to be a hunk with a mobile phone. For Emily, it's the start of a new seaweed empire.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1116967 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Customer Reviews

a bubbly book!
This book is definitely something to pick up if you are in a good mood. It has a light-hearted approch and is extrememly likeable! After already reading it three times, i can say that it is definitely one of the most enjoyable books i have ever read! I felt that the only thing lacking in this title, was a deeper storyline, but is something that you can't put down!