2.5 stars rounded up but to be honest I don't know where I am with this or how to rate it. It's very 1990s postmodernism, and I didn't know what was going on for most of it, but did stick with it and finish it.

I read Morvern Callar in the late-1990s and really enjoyed it (I was in my late teens and I grew up in the Scottish Highlands so it was context-appropriate). My paperback of these Demented Lands moved house with me several times over the last twenty years and I finally read it - I think I would have enjoyed it at lot more if I'd read it soon after it's predecessor. For me it ended up maybe being wrong time, wrong place, wrong life stage to enjoy it properly.