The Executor

A novel of multi-level brilliance, which offers a smart, funny mystery built around ethical concerns over privacy and biography, while casting a beady eye on workplace politics and male midlife crises – Anthony Cummins * Daily Mail *
Adept, attentive and occasionally beautiful … When the poetry starts to break through, the book comes alive – reverberatingly, ravishingly so. Everything is illuminated… enter the revivifying excitements of adultery, incest, euthanasia; sex and lust and love; dreams, mortality and death… exquisitely metered, intimate and yet profound, glimmeringly intelligent, slyly sensual … A worthwhile, interesting and impressive achievement – Edward Docx * The Guardian *
Generously and skilfully written … The unravelling of the novel’s moral perplexity is both ingenious and persuasive… A pleasing and very satisfying novel. – Allan Massie * The Scotsman *
A dark and compelling tale of what we leave behind us when we die – Alex Preston * The Guardian *
A stylist and satirical take on Kindle-era publishing, and is also a timely interrogation on the pertinence of “rampant masculinity” in contemporary fiction. – Kitty Grady * Financial Times *
A clever, neatly constructed mystery – and the poems are the best thing about it – Anthony Gardner * The Mail on Sunday *
Many pleasures … Matt’s domestic scenes confirm how good Morrison is on family life – James Walton * The Times *
A cunning literary novel… Seriously probing about poetry, its origins and repercussions. – David Grylls * The Sunday Times *
Entertaining, well written and acute … Morrison has an observant eye – Piers Paul Read * The Tablet *
Morrison’s prose is easy, stylish … it is often elegant in the way it depicts marriage, secrecy, and the fragile relationships between friends and spouses * Irish Times *

Born in Skipton, Yorkshire, Blake Morrison is the author of bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? (winner of the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and the Esquire Award for Non-Fiction) and Things My Mother Never Told Me. His poetry collections include Dark Glasses, which won the Dylan Thomas and Somerset Maugham prizes, Pendle Witches, which was illustrated by Paula Rego, and Shingle Street. He is also a novelist, critic, journalist and librettist. He lives in South London.

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