Tuesday, 13 May 2014

I'm currently reading...


 '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 dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling...'

'Morvern Callar', by Alan Warner immediately intrigued me; not only is her boyfriend found dead, which is rather mysterious and ominous but according to the blurb she seems 'laconic' and 'immoral', which are two words you wouldn't associate with the grief you would expect the character to feel. I also believe there is a film based on the book which came out in 2002, which I am also interested to watch and possibly review.
Overall I am rather fascinated to read this novel as I love books which allow the main character(s) to act in an unexpected way or an opposite way to what you would expect them to.

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