Elderly Lettie Colston receives an anonymous phone call reminding her that she must die. Soon ten of Lettie's friends also get the call. A bizarre investigation reveals a network of deception that binds together the group of aging ecc...

This is Sparks witty portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. While the young women do their best to act as if the world were back to normal, their giddy peregrinations hide some tragic war wo...

Muriel Spark in prime form: one of her most enjoyable, complex, and instructive jeux d'esprit. 'How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century,' Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with ...