I listened yesterday to the Drama on 3 adaptation of Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland. Must say I got rather confused about what Coupland was trying to say - this wasn't helped by my dozing off for a few minutes in the middle

A girl goes into a coma and wakes 18 years later (she even appears to have known this was going to happen because of voices in her head)  - and the world seems very different, and worse, to her (surprise, surprise). After coming out of the coma she announces on live TV that the world is going to end - and it does, except for her and her bunch of friends. She then has to die in order for the world to be saved. Plus there's a ghost called Jared floating around somewhere.

I've read a couple of online reviews of the novel and the authors of those don't seem that much clearer than I am about it. Anyone else hear it, or know the novel, and have any ideas?

I read the book a few years ago - haven't listened to the radio version yet but recorded it. I seem to remember it was a slightly confusing read - in terms of 'message' at least - but that I just had to accept the 'supernatural' aspects without questioning their meaning or logic too much. Maybe that's what didn't come across to you in the radio version. I can't remember who Jared was, and I lent the book to someone and never got it back!