Exile Spark Lights Up the Literati
Dame Muriel Spark, author of the classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, returned to her native Scotland for a rare appearance at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Sparks' fiction is known for stiletto wit on which she impales societal hypocrisy. Her other notable titles include A Far Cry From Kensington, Ghost Stories, The Girls of Slender Means and the deliciously comic Loitering With Intent