Erectile Dysfunction

It's this steadfast rejection of smirking cliché and the resolute humanity of the central characters, David and Alice, that make the book such a satisfying read.At its heart Swung is in fact, a fairly traditional love story.

David and Alice are in their early 30s, in love and have just set up home together in Glasgow's West End.

Morrison writes tellingly about the precarious existence of the modern yuppie couple: how, under the veneer of success, they are often never more than a redundancy or defaulted mortgage payment away from social collapse.

This is the essential lot of western man and woman today, and it will resonate deeply with many people.

This backdrop of realism shows a proper writer at work, signalling Alice and David as real characters and thus making us care about what happens to them.

As with most tales of this nature, before their love can be fully realised, there are several obstacles for the hero and heroine to overcome.

It's just that in Swung, these tend to be a little more extreme than those experienced by most couples.

So too, therefore, must be the remedies.Alice, a US art-school graduate ...

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