Robinson - Softcover

Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.

A rare writer...wickedly funny...Astonishingly talented and truly inimitable. -- San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle

Deserves to be back in print. -- South Bay Weekly, Bondo Wyszpolski, 20 March 2003

It takes a gifted surrealist like Muriel Spark to show just how unrealistic so-called reality TV is. -- Islands, Tony Gibbs, 1 June 2003

Muriel Spark has written some of the best sentences in English. -- The New Yorker

Spark is completely, searingly original. There is nobody remotely like her writing today. -- Independent

Spark's second novel and one of her best (which is saying a great deal). -- John Wilson, Christianity Today, 8 December 2003

To read Spark is to encounter delight after delight. -- Georgia Review