Alan Warner is the author of six other novels- Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven and The Deadman's Pedal. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.
Vigorous and uncannily convincing... Readers would be sorry if Warner were to have finished with these characters * Daily Telegraph * Warner navigates the comic, the philosophical and the socially acute like no other writer we have * Independent * This is a snarly group picaresque, a black comedy in which Gatwick airport is like Kafka's Castle in reverse... stifling, hilarious and indelible -- Nora Chassler * Scottish Review of Books * The way that this middle-aged man manages to inhabit a gang of girls with such gusto and conviction is one of the small miracles of contemporary fiction, and Warner has done it once again -- Phil Baker * The Sunday Times * Memorably bittersweet... [with] brilliantly pitched dialogue and monologue. The final cataclysmic scene is masterly * Guardian *