Electric Spark

<p><b>*A 2025 HIGHLIGHT FOR: <i>Telegraph, Financial Times</i>, <i>Guardian, </i><i>Observer </i>and <i>Scotsman</i>*</b><br><b>''A brilliant, wonderfully shrewd biography'' WILLIAM BOYD</b><br><b>''A pitch-perfect, electrifying symphony'' RACHEL HOLMES</b><b><br>''Miraculous . . . It is hard to imagine a more richly enjoyable literary biography'' A. N. WILSON</b><br><br>The word most commonly used to describe Muriel Spark is ¿puzzling¿. Spark was a puzzle, and so too are her books. She dealt in word games, tricks, and ciphers; her life was composed of weird accidents, strange coincidences and spooky events. Evelyn Waugh thought she was a saint, Bernard Levin said she was a witch, and she described herself as ¿Muriel the Marvel with her X-ray eyes¿. Following the clues, riddles, and instructions Spark planted for posterity in her biographies, fiction, autobiography and archives, Frances Wilson aims to crack her code.<br><br><i>Electric Spark</i> explores not the celebrated Dame Muriel