Reflections on hope, survival & the messy miracle of being alive.
It is a strange paradox, that many of the clearest,
The long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling & beloved first novel The Wild Hunt.
The Welsh Borders,
In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality & glittering wit. Caroline Rose is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys & the strange, detached narration of her every thought & 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? & Baron Stock, her bookseller friend, believes he is on the trail of England's leading Satanist.