Wick author's latest book is the ‘ultimate plague year survival read’
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The latest book from an award-winning Wick-born author is described by one critic as harnessing current global anxieties with a "beautifully observed family drama".
Praise indeed from Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan for Ewan Morrison's latest novel, How to Survive Everything, which is now available to pre-order on Amazon.
Another description calls it the "ultimate plague-year read: a thriller confronting huge global issues – disease, fake news, populism and mental health in crisis – within a dazzling, fast-paced page-turner that is also often funny".
The all-too-familiar back story for this futuristic tale features a terrifying pandemic and the travails of 15-year-old Haley and her eight-year-old brother Ben who have been kidnapped by their father to his secret lockdown hideaway.
Imprisoned in their new "prepper" environment, designed to deter intruders and equipped with rations of food, medicine and water to ensure their survival when civilisation collapses, they not only have to cope with their parents’ bitter divorce, but choose between deeply conflicting views of reality.
How to Survive Everything is one teenage girl’s guide to navigating the collapse of everything she knows – including her family and their sanity.
Ewan said: “As I was writing How to Survive Everything I was concerned about our polarised political world, populism and the problem of fake news. How can we know truth from lies? Who should we trust when we make life or death choices?
"And something much closer to home – what if we modern parents can no longer protect our families?”
Other advance praise for How To Survive Everything includes a comment from filmmaker/writer David Shields who calls it "gritty and cool" and says it "reads as a survival guide and feels like a warning".
Ewan is a multi-award winning novelist, screenwriter and essayist. His 2019 novel, Nina X, won the Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year and is currently being developed as a feature film with a multiple award-winning director on board.
Among the many positive reviews of that work was one by Irvine Welsh who called it "an amazing book" and said of Ewan: "There are few writers left in Britain who have his ambition, vision and empathy."
How To Survive Everything by Ewan Morrison will be available on March 8 priced £8.99 for paperback and £4.99 on Kindle. 384 pages and published by Saraband. ISBN: 9781913393151. Available to pre-order on Amazon at www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Everything-Ewan-Morrison-ebook/dp/B08TGHBJ2F
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