Book of the Week - Muriel Spark - The Biography
Martin Stannard's biography of the acclaimed Scottish novelist
Book of the Week - Muriel Spark - The Biography - Episode 1
Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access to her letters and papers.
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Book of the Week - Muriel Spark - The Biography - Episode 2
Marriage to an older man offers escape from the claustrophobia of Edinburgh's social microcosm, but the excesses of life in colonial Africa soon prove overwhelming.
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Book of the Week - Muriel Spark - The Biography - Episode 3
Spark's unique literary voice is discovered when she wins The Observer's Christmas story competition in 1951 with The Seraph and the Zambesi, beating 7,000 other entries.
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Book of the Week - Muriel Spark - The Biography - Episode 4
Spark's life is transformed by the publication of her fifth novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which gained critical and commercial success when it was published in 1961.
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Book of the Week - Muriel Spark - The Biography - Episode 5
Despite finding companionable happiness in Italy, the vexations of Spark's family life continued to intrude long into her old age.
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