num_pages: 204
description: Caroline Rose is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys and the strange, detached narration of her every thought and action. Caroline has an unusual problem - she realises she is in a novel. Her fellow characters also seem deluded: Laurence, her former lover, finds diamonds in a loaf of bread - has his elderly grandmother hidden them there? And Baron Stock, her bookseller friend, believes he is on the trail of England's leading Satanist. In Muriel Spark's brilliant first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering wit.
language: English
title: The Comforters
titlecomplete: The Comforters (New Directions Revived Modern Classics)
characters: Baron Stock, Caroline Rose
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Scotland, Female Authors, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1732
publisher: New Directions