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  • Published: 19 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784707231
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99
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The Executor




An elegant and unsettling novel about Matt, a man who becomes the literary executor of a friend’s estate, and the moral dilemmas he faces when he uncovers some unpublished, and potentially explosive, material


'Exquisitely metered, intimate and yet profound, glimmeringly intelligent…A worthwhile, interesting and impressive achievement’ Edward Docx, Guardian

What matters most: fidelity or art? Marriage or friendship? The wishes of the living or the talents of the dead?

Literary executor Matt Holmes finds himself considering these questions sooner than he thinks when his friend, the poet Robert Pope, dies unexpectedly. A trail of clues Rob has left within his archives leads Matt to a series of shocking discoveries that begins to unsettle everything he thought he knew about his friend. Should Matt conceal what he has found or share it? After all, it’s not just Rob’s reputation that could be transformed forever…

  • Published: 19 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784707231
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Blake Morrison

Born in Skipton, Yorkshire, Blake Morrison is the author of bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? (winner of the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and the Esquire Award for Non-Fiction) and Things My Mother Never Told Me. His poetry collections include Dark Glasses, which won the Dylan Thomas and Somerset Maugham prizes, Pendle Witches, which was illustrated by Paula Rego, and Shingle Street. He is also a novelist, critic, journalist and librettist. He lives in South London.

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