Morvern Callar

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Morvern Callar was the debut novel by Scottish author Alan Warner, first published in 1995 (ISBN 0-09-958611-8). Narrated in the first person it tells the story of Morvern, who wakes up near Christmas to find her boyfriend dead under the tree:

"He'd cut His throat with the knife. He'd near chopped off His hand with the meat cleaver. He couldn't object so I lit a Silk Cut. A sort of wave of something was going across me. There was fright but I'd daydreamed how I'd be."

The book was made into a critically-acclaimed, 2002 film of the same title by Lynne Ramsay with Samantha Morton in the title role winning the 2002 British Independent Film Award for Best Actress. The movie also received the 2002 Scottish BAFTA Award for Best Actress (Kathleen McDermott), the 2002 C.I.C.A.E. Award and the Award Of The Youth at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

The character of Morvern also appears in Warner's second novel, These Demented Lands (1997).Template:UK-film-stub Template:Novel-stub