Brilliant, tender, a stylistic dazzler
- Hilary Mantel,
A dazzling achievement
Time Out
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,
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'<i> The Outsider</i> 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
Warner's portrait of a Scottish rave-girl is bleak, haunting and brilliantly original
- Nick Hornby,
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
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.