Author: Alan Warner
Publisher: Vintage
Paperback
Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025
Enya says… Okay so this book isn’t from this year, in fact it’s from 1995 but I have been hand-selling this to so many people this year and now I’m shouting about it on social media… you know, I’ve gifted five copies of it this year. Possibly my new fave book! The novel is narrated glacially and dissociatively by Morvern, a young and uninspired woman working in a supermarket in a port town whose (strange) boyfriend has just killed himself. Punctuated throughout with the references to songs she plays from his old mixtapes. Movern doesn’t tell anyone, she sends the book he’s written to a publisher and uses the cash to go drinking and clubbing in Spain. A trippy, dissociative, and existential read which is strangely beautiful and intimate.