Ewan Morrison

For Emma

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Produktbeschreibung

"A masterpiece ... the eminent fiction writer of our times" - Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting Multi-award-winning author Ewan Morrison's 9th book is a gripping, high-stakes, high concept thriller, which fuses futurism with a powerful emotional core. Emma is a young genius Silicon Valley scientist who dies in a secret AI brain chip experiment. Her voice then haunts her father, helping him plan the killing of the Big Tech CEO who destroyed her. For Emma is a ghost-in-the machine tale of bereavement and of a unique and conflicted love between a daughter and her father. "Compelling... a brilliant book that you will devour." - Bruna Papandrea Producer of Gone Girl and Big Little Lies "A haunting work." - Ali Millar, author of Ava Anna Ada "Hold onto your seats for a cracking good ending, which I did not see coming, yet which I felt I should have seen coming - the best kind." - Lionel Shriver, author of We Need To Talk About Kevin "Harrowing, tragic and moving." - Ian Rankin, author of Midnight and Blue

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Leamington Books
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 134mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9781914090967
• ISBN-10: 1914090969
• Artikelnr.: 75919526

Autorenporträt

Ewan Morrison has been described as the “most fluent and intelligent Scottish writer of his generation” by Booker Prize judge Stuart Kelly. Morrison is an award winning novelist and screenwriter and an essayist. His writing has been praised by renowned authors Lionel Shriver, Ian Rankin, Fay Weldon, Douglas Coupland, James Frey, Irvine Welsh, James Robertson, Luke Rhinehart, and Hanif Kureishi among others. Ewan's eighth book, the 'darkly comic thriller, How to Survive Everything was published by Contraband in the UK in 2021, and in the US with Harper Perennial in 2022. Ewan’s novel, NINA X, published by Fleet an imprint of Little Brown, won Scotland's most prestigious literary prize—the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year—in 2019, and his novel, Close Your Eyes was the winner of the Scottish Book of the Year (SMIT) Fiction Prize in 2013.  He is also the winner of the Not the Booker Prize in 2012 for Tales from the Mall (2012) which has been named one of the top 50 Scottish Books of the last 50 years (Scottish Book Trust). Morrison blogs regularly for Psychology Today as "WORD-LESS: A novelist ponders emotional health," and writes regular articles and essays for AREO Magazine on Utopianism, Technology, and Free Speech. Between 2011 & 2013 Morrison was a regular contributor to The Guardian, and he has contributed articles to The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Daily Mail, L’Express, La Republicca, Quillette, Areo, Scotland on Sunday, The Scotsman, The Erotic Review, GQ, Esquire, Arena, Mute, Frieze, The Psychologist and Psychology Today. Ewan can be found on X at @mrewanmorrison.