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Morvern Callar
Morvern Callar | Alan Warner
"It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: 21-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. . . Brutal, erotic, jarringly poetic and rich in a blood-dark humour, Morvern Callar is a powerful debut novel from a new Scottish writer.
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MStew
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BOOK MAIL ? This sounded really good, I love finding books I've never heard of! This synopsis pulled me in!

"Morvern Callar a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling."?

RadicalReader @meghan2714 absolutely amazing book cover that alone would grab and grip me until the end 6y
Settings This is a relatively famous movie - didn't realize it was a book. 6y
MStew @RadicalReader I know it did for me!!😃 6y
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MStew @anoplph0ra I didn't know there was a movie! Even better!!😄😄 6y
Swe_Eva I have that one sitting in my bookshelf. Unread... Hope it‘s good, for your sake as well as for mine. 👍🏻 6y
MStew @Swe_Eva me too!!!😄😄😄 6y
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BarbaraBB
Morvern Callar | Alan Warner

'Heres you, twenty-one, a forty-hour week on slave wages for the rest of your life; even with a fortnight in a resort theres not much room for poetry there, eh?'

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BarbaraBB
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This is Morvern's story. She escapes the 40-hour week job, hides for the truth in a resort much longer than the planned fortnight, but there is still no room for poetry. She searches and tries but there is no escape. Not really. #1001books

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A dark, twisted, wild ride across Scotland and The Continent. Makes me want to bust out glow sticks and go rave.

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