The Abbess of Crewe (The Collected Muriel Spark Novels)

The Abbess of Crewe (The Collected Muriel Spark Novels)

by Muriel Spark (Author), Alan Taylor (Series Editor), Ali Smith (Introduction), Muriel Spark (Author), Ali Smith (Introduction), Muriel Spark (Author), Alan Taylor (Series Editor)

Synopsis

It is time to elect a new abbess at the Convent of Crewe. There are two contenders: nuns Alexandra and Felicity. Alexandra is busy bugging the convent while Felicity calls the police when her love letters (to a young Jesuit priest) are stolen. A brilliant laugh-out-loud satire on the Watergate scandal.

This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime. All are being published by Polygon in hardback Centenary Editions between November 2017 and September 2018.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 108
Edition: Centenary Edition
Publisher: Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited)
Published: 07 Jun 2018

ISBN 10: 1846974372
ISBN 13: 9781846974373

Author Bio

Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet, essayist, biographer and novelist, she won much international praise, including being twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Times placed her eighth in its list of the Fifty Greatest British Writers Since 1945. She died in Tuscany in 2006.

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and Newham College, Cambridge. Her first book, Free Love and Other Stories (1995) won the Saltire First Book of the Year award and a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Her novel Autumn was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker. She lives in Cambridge.