How to Survive Everything

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"One of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today." -- Irvine Welsh "I wasn't sure there could be a great pandemic novel. Here it is." -- Ian Rankin "[An] intriguing premise... Morrison has concocted an adventurous plot." -- New York Times, Editors' Picks "A terrific and gripping story... a masterclass in storytelling ... echoes of Salinger's Holden Caulfield ... Haley is a triumph ... often very funny ... It's unusual for a dystopian novel to be rich in humanity, but this one is. ... Morrison has been recognized as the best or certainly most interesting Scottish novelist of his generation, and this is the best book he has yet written." -- Alan Massie * The Scotsman * "A complex, thought-provoking drama about fake news, real fears and frayed family ties ... both exciting and terrifying ... a bold and compelling book by a writer whose creative risks continue to pay huge dividends." -- Malcom Forbes * Herald * "Urgent and exciting, harnessing our current global anxiety with a beautifully observed family drama." -- Atom Egoyan "Terrifying ... a terrifically written thriller that puts a very contemporary dysfunctional family at the heart of a very contemporary dystopian reality." -- Lynda Obst, Producer of Interstellar "How To Survive Everything is a gritty and (tragically) cool novel. The collision of a broken family and a global pandemic, it reads as a survival guide and feels like (is) a warning." -- David Shields "A riot to read ... occasionally extremely funny. The plot twists and turns at a spanking pace." -- Charlotte Metcalf * Breakout Culture * "Acutely realised and perfectly pitched ... poignant, heart-rending and hilarious ... This is a beautiful book in many ways ... an exploration of love in all its guises, emerging, enduring, failed, set against an all too real dystopian setting, full of broken people trying to endure. Highly recommended." -- The Literary Shed "One of our best living authors, his voice is unique, his style is magnificent and his imagination knows no bounds ... Terrifying and harrowing, yet also deeply touching ... Most certainly a novel of our time. One that will stay with me, and haunt me." -- Anne Cater, Random Things Through My Letterbox "Like a Greek Chorus ... the shifting nature of truth ... a thrilling conspiracy story [with] gallows humour." -- Claire Dobbin (check before using);