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. Surely she doesn't need to go to that much trouble. One of my favourites from the 90s. Morvern Callar is a 21-year-old supermarket worker from a small port town in the West of Scotland. "Morvern Callar," the second feature film from British writer/director Lynne Ramsay (after 1999's heart-breaking and unfairly overlooked "Ratcatcher"), is an enigmatic film with almost no dialogue. idway through the Scottish writer Alan Warner's first novel, his young antiheroine, Morvern Callar, encounters a minister outside a tavern. Morvern Callar Alan Warner 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 has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Light touching Morvern Callar's face, an echoing visual: And intuitively one feels as Morvern does, that the Christmas lights are inescapable. Unorthodox but utterly unconvincing. If you look at photographs of Alan Warner's face you can quickly spot the contrition of a man who has written Morvern Callar. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. We see a warmly-lit close-up on the face of Samantha Morton, who plays the titular role, as the screen blinks in and out of darkness. PR6073.A7227M67 1997 823'.914-