The boy's father was astonished, not by his son's rawing which to him was typical boy stuff, but the teacher's overwrought -- and female-centered -- reaction.
Moving back and forth between storylines can also be disorienting, and Ms Shafak's penchant for using grand language for grand ideas can feel humourless and overwrought.
Sometime later I discovered her seated on the sewing-room floor hemstitching a sheet, an occupation she often uses to calm herself when she has been overwrought.
At times, he accents key moments with a deliberately overwrought burst of music, as if to give us a glimpse of the soap opera that Elizabeth's indie film project might well become.