Morvern Callar
First edition cover
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| Author | Alan Warner |
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| Cover artist | Sara Morris |
| Country | Scotland |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Vintage Press |
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Publication date
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1995 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback and Paperback) |
| Pages | 240 pp (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | (paperback edition) |
| OCLC | 35042352 |
Morvern Callar was the debut novel by Scottish author Alan Warner, first published in 1995. Narrated in the first person, it tells the story of Morvern, who wakes up near Christmas to find her boyfriend dead in the kitchen:
The novel progresses with Morvern living her life in the port of Oban, Scotland, and publishing her deceased lover's novel under her own name.
The novel was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1996.
Characters within the novel include Morvern, Lanna, Vanessa the Depresser, Couris Jean, Red Hanna, Tequila Sheila, Creeping Jesus, The Complex Boys, and Granny Phimster.
The character of Morvern also is in Warner's second novel, These Demented Lands (1997) and third novel, The Sopranos (1998).
The book was made into a film in 2002, starring Samantha Morton and directed by Lynne Ramsay.
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