This is going to be a nonsensical review. I was on Muriel Spark's euphoria when I started reading it; well, let's just say my happiness just slide down from that point. The story itself is interesting, based on a true-crime it tried to tell what might have happened to Lord Lucan, the nanny killer....
14/09 - Reading this reminds me of reading Enid Blyton's Malory Towers or St Clare's school series, except with much more adult themes and dialogue. I wasn't alive during the 60s, so I don't really know how scandalised the readers and censors would have been by this book, but as I'm reading it I ke...
This is the only novel of hers I've read, but Spark has a lot in common with Shirley Jackson: a keen ear for dialogue that on the surface says little, but reads volumes, a building aura of foreboding, and a sympathy for the outsider that doesn't exclude them from scrutiny.'The Girls of Slender Means...
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