There can be few novelists who command such a formidable technique

* Financial Times *

She shares with Barbara Pym and Iris Murdoch the magical ability to write about people from whom in life we would run a mile, but who are made fascinating by their author's perceptions

* Spectator *

Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive

- JOHN UPDIKE, * New Yorker *

My admiration for Spark's contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the crème de la crème

- IAN RANKIN,

The care with which she uses words is matched by a gloriously carefree attitude. It's all part of her sanity, her breezy authorial self-confidence; and because of this I think that reading a blast of her prose every morning is a far more restorative way to start a day than a shot of espresso

* Daily Telegraph *

A profoundly serious comic writer whose wit advances, never undermines or diminishes, her ideas

* New York Times Book Review *

She has a receptive and wholly distinctive genius

- A N WILSON, * Spectator *

Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit

* New Yorker *