54: The Many Lives of Muriel Spark

Slightly Foxed

Jul 15, 202557:58Arts

It’s been said that Muriel Spark’s career was not so much a life as a plot, and she did indeed repeatedly reinvent herself, closing one chapter of her life and opening another, regardless of how many friends and business...

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