Author:Ewan Morrison
Tom and Meg fall in love in New York City and spend a passionate week together before he returns to his home in Edinburgh, where they plan to reunite in eight weeks. So begins a long distance relationship filled with phone calls, phone sex, emails, text messages and waiting.
Back in Scotland, Tom's eyes are opened to the mess he's been living in, with a job he despises and a girlfriend, an ex-wife and son he can no longer relate to. Meanwhile in New York, Meg throws in her job as a Hollywood script doctor, and begins writing from her heart, secretly recording every detail of their intense week together. As the weeks count down their love turns increasingly obsessive and they face traumatic choices. Does Tom really Love Meg, or is she a dream of escape? And what is Tom to Meg but increasingly a fiction? Only when she arrives they will know for sure.
Utterly compelling... On this form, Morrison is one of the finest novelists around
—— The TimesA transatlantic romance is brilliantly stretched to breaking point. But after a passionate week together, just how well do Tom and Meg know each other? Secrets and lies mount on two continents, as a face-to-face confrontation inevitably looms
—— Daily MirrorMorrison is on the button
—— IndependentMorrison strives to tell a new kind of love story sensitive to modern anxieties
—— Sunday HeraldThe absorption of two lovers can make the reader feel like a gooseberry, but Morrison leaves you aching for their reunion
—— ArenaCorporate filmmaker Tom and a script doctor Meg have a week long affair when he visits New York. They want it to continue but he has to go home to Scotland and his son...will the distance and their weaknesses sink their romance before its begun?
—— Colin Waters , The Sunday HeraldGrimly, intelligently comic as if written by an Asian Joseph Heller
—— Daily TelegraphIf this rich stew of disparate ingredients puts you in mind of Salman Rushdie, you wouldn't be far from the truth. His work, along with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Joseph Heller, is a low-key but persistent influence
—— Sunday TimesAn exciting, accomplished new literary voice
—— Irish TimesA very funny satire-cum-thriller
—— Sally Cousins , Sunday Telegraph SevenSomewhere in mid-air between Waugh and Rushdie (with an shade of Catch 22 hovering near by) this tremendous novel makes a tragicomic weather all its own
—— Boyd Tonkin , The IndependentJustly Booker longlisted last year, this debut is a dazzling one-off
—— Hermione Eyre , The ObserverProvocative and comic debut.
—— The TimesA true touch of originality ... showcases a promising new talent.
—— Colin Waters , Sunday HeraldDry, droll and insightful
—— The IndependentBodice-ripping romp through the West
—— TimesMissy by Strong and memorable female characters throughout this enjoyable novel
—— http://meandmybigmouth.typepad.com/scottpackWitty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny
—— Arabella WeirThe funniest writer ever to put words to paper
—— Hugh LaurieThe greatest comic writer ever
—— Douglas AdamsP.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century
—— Sebastian FaulksSublime comic genius
—— Ben Elton