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The Comforters

Muriel Spark author Alan Taylor editor Allan Massie editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Birlinn General

Published:16th Nov '17

Should be back in stock very soon

The Comforters cover

Caroline Rose has a problem. She hears voices and the incessant tapping of typewriter keys, and she seems to be a character in a novel . . . A comedy of errors, a crime novel, a book about books, Spark’s debut remains as otherworldly and mischievous as it was when first published sixty years ago.

The publishers acknowledge investment from Creative Scotland towards the publication of this book.

Supported by the Muriel Spark Society.

'As I entered my teens, I developed a taste for more arch, snappy writing and discovered the joys of Muriel Spark. Wisdom and wit — ideal for an impressionable youth finding his way in the world'

-- Julian Clary * Daily Ma

ISBN: 9781846974250

Dimensions: 205mm x 140mm x 25mm

Weight: 368g

208 pages

Centenary Edition