' The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times She was peerless sparkling inventive & intelligent
- the creme de la creme' Ian Rankin One October evening five London couples gather for a dinner party enjoying 'the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)' & waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien who has been unavoidably detained due to the fact that she is being murdered at this very moment With an introduction by Ian Rankin Symposium is Muriel Spark
- one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century & author of classics including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- at her wicked best 'A rich heady disturbing brew' Lorna Sage' Extremely clever & highly entertaining' Penelope Lively' Stiletto-sharp fiction' Alan Taylor Scotland on Sunday