April 15th, 2006
Muriel Spark dies
I’ve just heard that Muriel Spark has died. Best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the book is a wonderfully bitter study of a zealot’s undoing (Maggie Smith is never better in the film version ). I have a half written post about a recent book haul, including some I picked up at a sale of work last week - one of which is Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means, which was the book written directly after Miss Brodie’s story.