Morvern Callar
  • Published: 15 August 2015
  • ISBN: 9781784870102
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99

Morvern Callar

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Brutal, erotic, jarringly poetic and rich in a blood-dark humour, Morvern Callar was the spectacular debut of an utterly original Scottish writer and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award

It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling...

WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD
  • Published: 15 August 2015
  • ISBN: 9781784870102
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Alan Warner

Alan Warner is the author of eight novels: Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, The Deadman's Pedal and Their Lips Talk of Mischief. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.

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Also by Alan Warner

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The Deadman's Pedal
The Stars in the Bright Sky
The Man Who Walks
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These Demented Lands
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Praise for Morvern Callar

Morvern is a compelling creation; elusive, enigmatic and opaque. Both ordinary and extraordinary, she gleams out like onyx from a vivid, macabre and lyrical book

Guardian

Not since Camus' The Outsider has a voice with so many angles hopped and fluttered from the pages, has a note risen to chill in its opening breath

Scotland on Sunday

A dazzling achievement

Time Out

Warner's portrait of a Scottish rave-girl is bleak, haunting and brilliantly original

Nick Hornby

Morvern is a brilliant creation... more than a stunning debut novel; to my mind it establishes Alan Warner as one of the most talented, original and interesting voices around

Irvine Welsh

Brilliant, tender, a stylistic dazzler

Hilary Mantel
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