The man who walks

The imaginative new novel from the author ofMorvern Callar, soon to be released in film. After the scandalous theft of a pub�s World Cup cash kitty, a homeless drifter pursues his eccentric uncle, �The Man Who Walks�, into the Highlands to recover the money. The nephew�s frantic progress and other bizarre diversions form Alan Warner�s fourth, wickedly hilarious novel. But who is The Man Who Walks? Is he simply a water-carrying madman with one glass eye and a fondness for whisky, who collects old Christmas trees for money and old newspapers to make his home? Or is he a savant, touched by the hand of God, wandering the back roads along ancient, ancestral tracks?