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Letters of Muriel Spark (Volume 1)
by Muriel Spark
€ 43.00 Save €0.75 (RRP €43.75)
ISBN: 9780349014340
The first of two volumes of the letters of Muriel Spark, one of the greatest and most fascinating writers of the twentieth century.
In 1944, on her return to England after a disastrous marriage, Muriel Spark was unknown as a writer except to a handful of close friends; by 1963 she was the internationally renowned author of seven critically acclaimed, bestselling novels.
Her letters - witty, affectionate, sharp, mercurial - reveal the turbulence of her early career in postwar London: her struggles to earn a living as a writer, her difficult love affairs, a terrifying breakdown, and her conversion to Catholicism. They also trace her development from little-known poet to celebrated novelist, with glittering insights into the emergence of her unique literary voice, as well as her relationships with friends, lovers, writers and publishers.
Selected from her extensive correspondence and insightfully edited and annotated, this is an essential read for anyone interested in Spark's work and world.
'[An] immaculately-edited collection . . . Feisty, fun-filled, witty and, of course, sparky, the letters are a window into a remarkable life that was lived in devotion to literature'
ALAN TAYLOR, author of Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark
800 pages.
Not Yet Published.
Printed on or after 28/08/25. Please note dispatch may take 5-10 days after publication date.
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Date of Publication: 28/08/2025
Hardback
