The Comforters

In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering wit.

Caroline Rose is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys and the strange, detached narration of her every thought and action. She has an unusual problem - she realises she is in a novel. Her fellow characters are also possibly deluded: Laurence, her former lover, finds diamonds in a loaf of bread - could his elderly grandmother really be a smuggler And Baron Stock, her bookseller friend, believes he is on the trail of England's leading Satanist.

“'Brilliantly original and fascinating' Evelyn Waugh'Brilliantly original and fascinating' Evelyn Waugh”

Brilliantly original and fascinating - Evelyn Waugh

A master of malice and mayhem - Michiko Katutani, NEW YORK TIMES

Brilliantly original and fascinating - Evelyn Waugh

A master of malice and mayhem - Michiko Katutani, NEW YORK TIMES

Born in Edinburgh, Muriel Spark was internationally famous and received the Italia Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the FNAC Prix Etranger and the Saltire Prize, among many others. She was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978 and to L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 1988. She died in April 2006.

In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering wit.Caroline Rose is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys and the strange, detached narration of her every thought and action. She has an unusual problem - she realises she is in a novel. Her fellow characters are also possibly deluded: Laurence, her former lover, finds diamonds in a loaf of bread - could his elderly grandmother really be a smuggler And Baron Stock, her bookseller friend, believes he is on the trail of England's leading Satanist.

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