Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark ended as the one of the great writers of the twentieth century with such novels as Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. In 1992 Spark invited Martin Stannard to write her biography. The result is a compelling portrait of an extraordinary life, revealing the full story of her relations with her family, her hallucinations and subsequent depression and the disastrously misplaced love she had for two men she had wanted to marry, which she avoided discussing in her autobiography. Stannard discusses Muriel Spark’s life and work with Willy Maley, author of Muriel Spark for Starters.
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