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A Far Cry From Kensington

A Far Cry From Kensington

by Muriel Spark
Paperback
Publication Date: 25/05/1989
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Mrs Hawkins, a fat young war widow worked for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher in 1950s London. Looking back on shady literary doings and a deadly enemy, anonymous letters, blackmail and suicide, the thin and successful Mrs Hawkins recalls how she came through it all.
ISBN:
9780140108743
9780140108743
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-05-1989
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x1mm
Weight:
0.14kg
Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark, DBE, C.Litt., was born in Edinburgh in 1918 and educated in Scotland.

A poet and novelist, she also wrote children's books, radio plays, a comedy Doctors of Philosophy, (first performed in London in 1962 and published 1963) and biographies of nineteenth-century literary figures, including Mary Shelley and Emily Bronte.

For her long career of literary achievement, which began in 1951, when she won a short-story competition in the Observer, Muriel Spark garnered international praise and many awards, which include the David Cohen Prize for Literature, the Ingersoll T.S. Eliot Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature, the Gold Pen Award, the first Enlightenment Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. She died in 2006.

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