What Spark writes about the publishing world is even more true now: full of nutters! That’s why I appreciate my publishers all the more.
I don’t know why I put this off so long: maybe it was knowing it was set in the publishing world. That sort of roman à clef doesn’t usually appeal to me much — possibly because there is nothing much that will surprise me about the publishing world anymore.
But dashing off on the train to meet the fab QoE (still need to write that up) and needing something to read, I wanted more #MurielSpark100 so I grabbed this from the shelf. An unfortunate cover: I see what they were trying to do but it doesn’t really work. So many other lovely versions like this.
But of course this is SPARK so I was riveted from the start. The opening sentence is now among my faves ever:
‘So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to the silence.’
How great…
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Graham Wynd 
