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[[caption-width-right:350:The opening scene, [[EstablishingSeriesMoment setting the tone of the movie]] perfectly.]]

->''"Be brave."''
-->-- From the will of Morvern's boyfriend

''Morvern Callar'' is 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.

Following her boyfriend's suicide, supermarket clerk Morvern Callar passes off his unpublished novel as her own. With the money her boyfriend left for his funeral, she leaves Scotland for Ibiza where she travels with her closest friend. The journey prompts a series of internal and external transformations for Morvern-- ones which bring to light her experiences of grief, memory, freedom, and desire.

A thoughtful work of art, ''Morvern Callar'' is an intense but quiet reflection on the consequences and morality of carelessness.

The book was made into a film in 2002, starring Samantha Morton and directed by Lynne Ramsay (''Literature/WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin'', ''Film/YouWereNeverReallyHere'').

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!!This book and the film based on it provides examples of:
* TwentyFourHourPartyPeople
* AmbiguousEnding
* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:When Morvern and Lana arguing, Morvern tells her boyfriend's death to Lana but she doesn't believe her.]]
* CrappyHolidays: See below HorribleCampingTrip.
* CharacterTitle
* DisposingOfABody: [[spoiler:Morvern hides her boyfriend's dismembered body at the top of mountain.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Morvern's boyfriend.
* EmotionlessGirl: Morvern.
* ForgingTheWill: Morvern uses the money for her boyfriend's funeral to fund her Spain trip and she's pretending to be the author of her boyfriend's novel. [[spoiler:and his body isn't given a funeral but instead dismembered.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartner[=/=]LivingEmotionalCrutch[=/=]OnlyFriend: Morvern and Lana.
* HorribleCampingTrip: Poor Lana. She slept in a strange country on a strange road with Morvern.
* MaintainTheLie: Morvern lies to other people that her boyfriend left her. [[spoiler:She also told Lana about her boyfriend's death, but Lana doesn't believe her.]] She also lied about writing the novel to the publisher.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: At the beginning of the story, Morvern doesn't clean up her boyfriend's body. [[spoiler: She even dismembers it instead of giving it a funeral.]]
* UnexpectedInheritance: Morvern's boyfriend left money for his funeral, a novel and in the movie, a mixtape.
* PersonalEffectsReveal: Morvern discovered her boyfriend's unpublished novel, so she takes all the credit and got published. Ironically, the publisher highly praised the novel.
* PlagiarismInFiction: She plagiarised her boyfriend's novel by claiming she wrote it.
* PosthumousCharacter: Morvern's boyfriend.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Morvern [[spoiler:dismembered her boyfriend's body]] while listening to "[[Music/TheVelvetUnderground I'm Sticking with You]]".
* TwistedChristmas: Morvern's boyfriend dies around Christmas.
* UnreliableNarrator: (Only Novel) Morvern [[spoiler:dismembered her boyfriend's body]] and stole his novel. Her mental state is unclear.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:At the end, Morvern leaves Lana.]]
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