Close Your Eyes Trailer (road)

Trailer for CLOSE YOUR EYES - the new novel by Ewan Morrison, Jonathan Cape, August 2012. Music: Lindsay Caldwell
"Close Your Eyes is an astonishing book. It manages to be both clear-eyed and harsh, compassionate and just. It takes us right to the heart of the turbulent social changes that defined our last quarter century and it is a revealing, honest, searing novel about mothers and children, about what it means to be part of a family. The story, the writing, the moral intelligence: all of it is a knock out."
CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS, Author of THE SLAP
'A brave, sensitive, painful novel, Close your Eyes is an alternative history of the last forty years, an exploration of the damage idealistic, well-intentioned parents can do to their children, and a reminder that it is sometimes the people who are absent who really fill our lives.'
JAMES ROBERTSON, winner of Saltire Society Award, and the Scottish Book of the Year Award, 2010.
"Beautiful. Haunting. If Ewan Morrison was a woman, Close Your Eyes would be destined for the Orange Prize."
HELEN WALSH, Author
In 1981, a mother abandoned her child and drove into the night, never to return. Her disappearance was reported in the press as a fatal road accident. Her body was never found.
Thirty years later, Rowan has a child of her own. Afflicted by post-natal depression, she is convinced that she'll hurt her daughter unless she unpicks the mystery of her past, buried deep within a commune in the remote highlands of Scotland. Leaving her young family and life in London, she returns to her childhood home to find a failed utopia shrouded in secrecy. And there, with a looming cult leader, amongst the rites and rituals, the sacraments and ceremonies is a single postcard, dated a week after her mother's death. As she draws ever closer to the truth about her mother, she fears she might lose even herself.
Close Your Eyes is a powerful novel, exploring the bonds of maternal love. Evoking the spirit of the 60s and 70s it tells the secret history of a revolutionary social experiment, and, with unflinching honesty, depicts the impacts, both good and bad, that it had on its children.
Close your Eyes is Morrison's fourth Novel. His novel Swung was short-
listed for the Prince Maurice Prize. He is the winner of a Royal Television Society Award for his scriptwriting and writes regularly for The Guardian. Hie recent book Tales from the Mall has received international acclaim.