A Far Cry From Kensington

A Far Cry From Kensington

by Muriel Spark
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 09/05/2013

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'Mercurially funny, playful and mischievous' Ali Smith


'I was in heaven reading this book. I think she writes like an angel . . . just blissful' Stephen Fry


A novel of 'pure delight' (Claire Tomalin) by the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.


When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he 'urinates frightful prose', little does she realise the repercussions. Holding that 'no life can be carried on satisfactorily unless people are honest' Mrs Hawkins refuses to retract her judgement, and as a consequence, loses not one, but two much-sought-after jobs in publishing. Now, years older, successful, and happily a far cry from Kensington, she looks back over the dark days that followed, in which she was embroiled in a mystery involving anonymous letters, quack remedies, blackmail and suicide.


With an introduction by Ali Smith.


'Wonderfully entertaining.' Sunday Telegraph


'An outstanding novel ... A Far Cry From Kensington has an effortless, translucent grasp of the spirit of the period.' Observer

ISBN:
9781405530491
9781405530491
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
09-05-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
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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