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The first of two volumes of the letters of Muriel Spark, one of the greatest and most fascinating writers of the twentieth century.
*One of the TLS Books of the Year 2025*
In 1944, on her return to England after a disastrous marriage, Muriel Spark was unknown as a writer except to a handful of close friends; by 1963 she was the internationally renowned author of seven critically acclaimed, bestselling novels.
Her letters - witty, affectionate, sharp, mercurial - reveal the turbulence of her early career in postwar London: her struggles to earn a living as a writer, her difficult love affairs, a terrifying breakdown, and her conversion to Catholicism. They also trace her development from little-known poet to celebrated novelist, with glittering insights into the emergence of her unique literary voice, as well as her relationships with friends, lovers, writers and publishers.
Selected from her extensive correspondence and insightfully edited and annotated, this is an essential read for anyone interested in Spark's work and world.
PRAISE FOR VOLUME 1:
'[An] immaculately-edited collection . . . Feisty, fun-filled, witty and, of course, sparky, the letters are a window into a remarkable life that was lived in devotion to literature'
ALAN TAYLOR, author of Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark
'What an extraordinary life of adventure the young Muriel Spark led. These funny and fraught early letters capture her triumphs and disasters vast and small, not to mention the curious predicaments--personal, artistic, familial--to which she seemed fated. A marvelous book'
JOSEPH O'NEILL
'Letters is a marvel. Taking in faith, love, fame and feuds, Spark's letters reveal her life to be every bit as compelling as the novels she wrote' JAMES BAILEY, author of Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
'Meticulously edited . . . The letters invited an investigation into both the life and the work' RACHEL CUSK, NEW YORKER
'Fascinating . . . edited with exemplary attention to detail by Dan Gunn. There are delightful touches throughout' SPECTATOR
'The book I wanted not to end was The Letters of Muriel Spark (Virago), superbly edited by Dan Gunn, spanning 1944 to 1963. She was fun, she was charming, and if you weren't careful - sometimes even if you were - she was vengeful'
JAMES CAMPBELL, TLS Books of the Year 2025
'Wonderful . . . An eye-opening reflection of her daily life and an important contribution to her literature' SCOTTISH SUNDAY POST
'A must-read' STANDARD
'Gunn faced a formidable task in distilling into two volumes a body of about 3,500 letters and capturing the nature and force of Spark's personality. . . he has risen to the challenge impressively' CLAIRE HARMAN, LITEARY REVIEW
'Spark's selected letters [exhibit] the glorious range of Muriel's intellect, anxieties, love and rage, her sense of frailty as well as of strength. For these are often spectacularly good, funny, painful statements, which Gunn has edited brilliantly' MARTIN STANNARD, THE OLDIE
As Gunn's meticulously edited first volume of Muriel Spark's letters shows, so much happened to her it is no surprise she found material for a lifetime's fiction . . . A spellbinding portrait of the writer as a relatively young woman' ROSEMARY GORING, HERALD
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Tuula Karjalainen
John Buchan
Javier Marias
Professor Tobias Boes
Sarah Easter Collins
Frida Skybäck
Liz Moore
Colleen Hoover
Kristin Fägerskjöld
Armando Lucas Correa
Sharon Bolton
Ruth Lillegraven
Santa Montefiore
Kelly Rimmer
Martha Hall Kelly
Svenja O'Donnell
Nathan Harris
Holly Jackson
Louise Boije af Gennäs
Tina Norin
Kristin Fägerskjöld
Pernilla Lindroos
Anna Lönnqvist
Jessie Burton
Malin Nordström
Marc Levy
Emma Donoghue
Snezana Lindskog, Andie Lindskog
Tony Samuelsson
Andrev Walden
Tina Harnesk
Kathrine Nedrejord
Anthony Doerr
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Lauren Groff
Claire Messud
Claire Lynch
Sebastian Barry
Ray Celestin
Simon Stranger
Alice Munro
Linda Boström Knausgård
Marit Kapla
Ulf Stark
Sarah Easter Collins
Liz Moore
Ursula Scavenius
Colleen Hoover
Michel Jean
