Loitering with Intent Book

My first Muriel Spark. And I feel like I've finally discovered another British female author of genius. The most deliciously witty and clever book I've read all year. And what fabulous characters! It reminded me a bit of Nabokov, the hall of mirrors she creates around her narrator. One of the interesting things she said in a documentary I recently watched about her was that every book has a hidden author and that one of the first tasks of the writer is to work out who is writing the novel. She does a masterful job of dramatizing this narrator-behind-the-narrator conundrum in this book. I now have a plan for the remainder of 2019 - to read the other twenty-four Muriel Spark novels. Huge thanks to Fionnuala for giving me the nudge.