Distance - Softcover

Ewan Morrison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 022408237X ISBN 13: 9780224082372

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2008

Synopsis

They fall in love in New York City and spend a passionate week together before he returns to his home in Edinburgh, where they are to reunite in eight weeks. So begins a long distance relationship filled with phone calls, phone sex, emails, text messages and the pain of 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. As he waits for Meg he takes to drinking in secret. Meanwhile in New York, Meg has been inspired by Tom to throw in her job as a Hollywood script doctor, and to write from her heart, secretly recording every detail of their intense week together. They talk every day on the phone, her day is his night. Six time zones out of sync. As the weeks count down to her arrival their love turns increasingly obsessive and they face traumatic life 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. As he showed in his highly praised first novel, Swung, Ewan Morrison writes about relationships between men and women with extraordinary sympathy, insight and daring.

About this title

About the Author

Ewan Morrison is the author of three novels and a collection of short stories, winning a Scottish Arts Council Award in 2005. He lives in Glasgow.

Review

"Utterly compelling... On this form, Morrison is one of the finest novelists around" * The Times * "A 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 Mirror * "Morrison is on the button" * Independent * "Morrison strives to tell a new kind of love story sensitive to modern anxieties" * Sunday Herald * "The absorption of two lovers can make the reader feel like a gooseberry, but Morrison leaves you aching for their reunion" * Arena *

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022408237X
• ISBN 13: 9780224082372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 410