Two books combined into one volume: Momento Mori and The Girls of Slender Means. Muriel Spark's novels have a flavour in the way that 'Saki" and EM Forster have a flavour: an indefinable aroma which no description of plot or characterization can possibly explain. To say that Momento Mori is abouy a coterie of elderly people, each of whom receives anonymous phone calls warning of impending death, or that The Girls of Slender Means is about a bunch of young women living in a Kensington women's club, would seem almost beside the point. For the point is Muriel Spark herself and the originality of her wit, with its vaguely sinister, almost macabre overtones and its delight in the unexpected shock which goes off under the reader's feet like the explosion of the unexpected bomb in the garden of that women's club. These two novels, with their wickedly acute observations of character, their off-beat touches of fantasy and their intelligent humor show this gifted author at her most irresistible.
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