{"product_id":"9781526663030","title":"Electric Spark : The Enigma of Muriel Spark","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Wilson, Frances \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/06\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 432 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781526663030,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*A 2025 HIGHLIGHT FOR: Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer and Scotsman*‘Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back’ KATHERINE RUNDELL'Miraculous . . . It is hard to imagine a more richly enjoyable literary biography' A. N. WILSONThe word most commonly used to describe Muriel Spark is ‘puzzling’. Spark was a puzzle, and so too are her books. She dealt in word games, tricks, and ciphers; her life was composed of weird accidents, strange coincidences and spooky events. Evelyn Waugh thought she was a saint, Bernard Levin said she was a witch, and she described herself as ‘Muriel the Marvel with her X-ray eyes’. Following the clues, riddles, and instructions Spark planted for posterity in her biographies, fiction, autobiography and archives, Frances Wilson aims to crack her code.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElectric Spark explores not the celebrated Dame Muriel but the apprentice mage discovering her powers. We return to her early years when everything was piled on: divorce, madness, murder, espionage, poverty, skulduggery, blackmail, love affairs, revenge, and a major religious conversion. If this sounds like a novel by Muriel Spark it is because the experiences of the 1940s and 1950s became, alchemically reduced, the material of her art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55199065932149,"sku":"9781526663030","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781526663030_ed060d04-ade9-4c57-8acc-53b4edf3441e.jpg?v=1759679534","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781526663030","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}