Morvern Callar


The story

The story takes place in the north of Scotland. It is winter, coming up to Christmas. Morvern Callar is the heroine of the story. She lives with her boyfriend. One day she finds her boyfriend dead. He has committed suicide. Morvern decides to hide her boyfriend's dead body in the mountains. She finds a letter from her boyfriend on the desk.

She sends a story written by her boyfriend to a publisher in London. She says she wrote the story and it becomes a bestseller. She quits her job in the supermarket and goes to Spain for six months.@

When Morvern finds she is pregnant, she decides to return to her hometown because she has no family or friends in Spain.