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""Astute . . . a welcome addition for anyone caught in the mental claws of one of the most elusive and brilliant writers of modern times""---Martin Chilton, Independent ""[Bailey] has great fun in exploring possibilities, imagining scenarios, creating scenes and celebrating [Spark's] enigmatic writing. Still, there are facts here, and you will learn a lot, not only about Spark, but about the changing (and depressingly persistent) sensibilities of the 20th century""---Vikki Reilly, Scotland on Sunday ""Clever ... Spark's nine lives, also presented as a ""series of flickering sparks"", neatly capture both the slipperiness and the picaresque quality of this most elusive of subjects ... [Bailey's] Spark is a likeable monster and his wit and playfulness are well suited to his subject. He is a good close reader and this is a biography that will delight those who admire Spark's 22 novels and intrigue those who are new readers or who know only The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie""---Paula Byrne, The Times ""Inventive not inventing ... Bailey's approach isn't a conventional ""life"" so much as a hybrid of literary criticism, personal appreciation and a novel""---David Robinson, The Scotsman

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James Bailey is a writer and researcher who holds a PhD in literature and is the author of Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction.

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