Loitering with Intent (Paperback)

from SirRoger

My love for Muriel Spark's writing grows and grows. I love this book. It's witty, clever, suspenseful, and hilarious, all in a perfectly new way.

from Cariola

Loitering with Intent is a smart, funny novel set in the publishing world of late 1940s London. Fleur Talbot has written a novel whose characters just happen to resemble the people she works with at the Autobiographical Society--so much so that events in the novel start to happen in real life. Bu...

from DameMuriel

This is probably my favorite book EVER. Some of the characters remind me of people I used to work with.

from Kasthu

The novel opens on a summer day in 1949, when Fleur Talbot, an aspiring writer at work on a novel called Warrender Chase, get a job as typist for an "Autobiographical Association" that promises to save the memoirs of its illustrious members for a period of 70 years. As she gains material for her ...

from Citizenjoyce

This is the best Muriel Spark I've read. As in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Spark takes on a charismatic leader; but this time, even though she repeatedly calls Sir Quentin evil, the book is humorous with a caustic wit and a realistic view of religion and sexual morality that shows the opposite...