The Stars in the Bright Sky

Pitch perfect, darkly comic and brimming with life - in all its squalor rage, tears and laughter - this is an unforgettable story of female friendship.The Sopranos are back- out of school and out in the world, gathered in Gatwick to plan a super-cheap last-minute holiday reunion. Kay, Kylah, Manda, Rachel and Finn are joined by Finn's equally gorgeous friend Ava and are ready to go on the rampage.Will it be Benidorm or Magaluf, Paris or Las Vegas? One thing is certain- the girls will have a hell of a time getting there. Pitch perfect, darkly comic and brimming with life - in all its squalor, rage, tears and laughter - this is an unforgettable story of female friendship.Longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

“Memorably bittersweet... [with] brilliantly pitched dialogue and monologue. The final cataclysmic scene is masterly”

Guardian
The way that this middle-aged man manages to inhabit a gang of girls with such gusto and conviction is one of the small miracles of contemporary fiction, and Warner has done it once again -- Phil Baker The Sunday Times
This is a snarly group picaresque, a black comedy in which Gatwick airport is like Kafka's Castle in reverse... stifling, hilarious and indelible -- Nora Chassler Scottish Review of Books
Warner navigates the comic, the philosophical and the socially acute like no other writer we have Independent
Vigorous and uncannily convincing... Readers would be sorry if Warner were to have finished with these characters Daily Telegraph

Alan Warner is the author of six other novels- Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven and The Deadman's Pedal. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.

'This is a snarly group picturesque, a black comedy in which Gatwick airport is like Kafka's Castle in reverse...stifling, hilarious and indelible' Scottish Review of Books The Sopranos are back: out of school and out in the world, gathered in Gatwick to plan a super-cheap last-minute holiday reunion. Kay, Kylah, Manda, Rachel and Finn are joined by Finn's equally gorgeous friend Ava and are ready to go on the rampage. Will it be Benidorm or Magaluf, Paris or Las Vegas? One thing is certain: the girls will have a hell of a time getting there. Pitch perfect, darkly comic and brimming with life - in all its squalor rage, tears and laughter - this is an unforgettable story of female friendship. 'Warner navigates the comic, the philosophical and the socially acute like no other writer we have' Independent 'One of Scotland's finest young writers... The Stars in the Bright Sky can scum you out, surprise you with lyrical description, and feel like a dizzying stint on the Ezzy Dancer in the airport's amusement arcade, but its compassionate and funny depiction of the bonds of friendship is memorably bittersweet enough to make you care about the girls' Shena Mackay, Guardian 'Vigorous and uncannily convincing... A dark and powerfully odd book... Experimentally inclined readers would be sorry if Warner were to have finished with these characters' Daily Telegraph

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