Memento Mori

Muriel Spark author Alan Taylor editor Zoe Strachan editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Birlinn General

Published:16th Nov '17

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Described by David Lodge as ‘her first masterpiece’, Memento Mori opens with a telephone call and the words ‘Remember you must die’. Over several months, a circle of elderly men and women receive similar calls and everyone becomes a suspect. As the investigating police inspector muses: ‘Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.’

While immersed in the indignities of old age, dementia and death, this novel is both profoundly compassionate and entertaining.

The publishers acknowledge investment from Creative Scotland towards the publication of this book.

Supported by the Muriel Spark Society.

'As I entered my teens, I developed a taste for more arch, snappy writing and discovered the joys of Muriel Spark. Wisdom and wit — ideal for an impressionable youth finding his way in the world'

-- Julian Clary * Daily Mail *

'a perfect example of humour providing purpose and drive'

* BBC Culture *

'funny without ever once breaking the spell of the book'

-- Richard O

ISBN: 9781846974274

Dimensions: 205mm x 140mm x 25mm

Weight: 366g

240 pages

Centenary Edition