In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering wit. Caroline Rose is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys and the strange, detached narration of her every thought and action. She has an unusual problem - she realises she is in a novel. Her fellow characters are also possibly deluded: Laurence, her former lover, finds diamonds in a loaf of bread - could his elderly grandmother really be a smuggler? And Baron Stock, her bookseller friend, believes he is on the trail of England's leading Satanist.
- ISBN10 0140019111
- ISBN13 9780140019117
- Publish Date 27 April 1978
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 June 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English