Aiding and Abetting
Written by Muriel Spark / Introduction by Louise Welsh
£9.99
58 in stock
Fiction
Reviews
As I entered my teens, I developed a taste for more arch, snappy writing and discovered the joys of Muriel Spark. Wisdom and wit — ideal for an impressionable youth finding his way in the world'
Daily Mail
About the Book
Hildegard Wolf is a German psychiatrist who lives a comfortable life in Paris. When she encounters a client who claims to be Lord Lucan, she
can’t help but be intrigued. After all, he’s the second man who has claimed to be the elusive lord. But which one is the imposter?
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.
The Authors
Muriel Spark
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.Louise Welsh
Louise Welsh was born in London in 1965. She studied History at Glasgow University, and after graduation established and worked at a second-hand bookshop for several years before publishing her first novel, The Cutting Room (2002). She is the author of short stories, psychological thrillers and plays, and edits volumes of prose and poetry, as well as contributing to journals and anthologies. She lives in Glasgow.Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor has contributed to numerous publications, including The TLS, The New Yorker and The Melbourne Age, and edited four acclaimed anthologies – The Assassin’s Cloak (2000), The Secret Annexe (2004), The Country Diaries (2009) and most recently, Glasgow: The Autobiography (2016).Related
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