Aiding and Abetting
- 3 Dec 2015
- 9781782117643
- £7.19
- 224 pp
In a few words
Displays Spark’s unique blend of razor-sharp wit and social satire at its very best
‘Unmistakable Spark, to be relished and enjoyed’ The Times
Unmistakable Spark, to be relished and enjoyed, like a late vintage claret or a high-grade murder
A page-turner, hugely entertaining . . . one of her best
More about
the book
Aiding and Abetting is Muriel Spark’s mordant and witty satirical take on the true crime genre, a novel of fraudsters, imposters, murderers and aiders and abetters.
In Paris, a psychiatrist finds herself treating two elderly gentlemen who both claim to be the notorious British fugitive Lord Lucan. But who, if either, is the real Lord Lucan? Can she discover the truth before her own dark secret is revealed?
Marvellously put together, sharp-tongued and merry and also grave
Elegant and captivating . . . in this most entertaining novel, no one is quite what they seem . . . wholly enjoyable
An exceptionally intelligent book . . . It is the nature of charm that attracts her unflinching eye, and that proves itself to be very much in the eye of the beholder
Alex Clark
GuardianQuintessential Spark - so elegantly pared down . . . sparkling
Muriel Spark
View profileMuriel Spark, DBE, C.Litt., was born in Edinburgh in 1918 and educated in Scotland. A poet and novelist, she is most well known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She also wrote children’s books, radio plays, the comedy Doctors of Philosophy and biographies of nineteenth-century literary figures, including Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë. Muriel Spark has garnered international praise and many awards, including the David Cohen Prize for Literature, the Ingersoll T.S. Eliot Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature, the Gold Pen Award, the first Enlightenment Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. She died in 2006.
