The writer of "some of the best sentences in English" (The New Yorker), Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was the author of dozens of novels including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, and The Driver's Seat. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
"Her books enact a modern anxiety about the viability of fiction while being full of old-fashioned novelistic consolations and satisfactions." -- James Wood - The Guardian "Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit: hook her to a pen and the juice purls out of her." -- Stephen Schiff - The New Yorker "A very rare bird...Spark explored [her] metafictional-theological theme further in the brilliant and audacious novellas The Driver's Seat and Not to Disturb, which I especially admire." -- David Lodge, author of Changing Places
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