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The Abbess of Crewe Muriel Spark

Name: The Abbess of Crewe By Muriel Spark
SKU: 9781846974373
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The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark

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SeriesThe Collected Muriel Spark Novels

Summary

The Abbess of Crewe, Muriel Spark's thirteenth novel, was first published in 1974.

The Abbess of Crewe Summary

The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark

It is time to elect a new abbess at the Convent of Crewe. There are two contenders: nuns Alexandra and Felicity. Alexandra is busy bugging the convent while Felicity calls the police when her love letters (to a young Jesuit priest) are stolen. A brilliant laugh-out-loud satire on the Watergate scandal.

This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime. All are being published by Polygon in hardback Centenary Editions between November 2017 and September 2018.

The Abbess of Crewe Reviews

'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 Mail *

'With her wildly comic fiction Spark alerts us to the workings of surveillance, the workings of politically expedient narrative structures, and the powerplay in the seductions of fiction'

-- Ali Smith * The Guardian *

About Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet, essayist, biographer and novelist, she won much international praise, including being twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Times placed her eighth in its list of the Fifty Greatest British Writers Since 1945. She died in Tuscany in 2006.

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and Newham College, Cambridge. Her first book, Free Love and Other Stories (1995) won the Saltire First Book of the Year award and a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Her novel Autumn was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker. She lives in Cambridge.

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GOR013599361

ISBN 13

9781846974373

ISBN 10

1846974372

Title

The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark

Author

Muriel Spark

Series

The Collected Muriel Spark Novels

Condition

Used - Well Read

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Birlinn General

Year published

20180607

Number of pages

108

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N/A

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