Martin Stannard - Muriel Spark - The Biography

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0120090803Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of the acclaimed Scottish novelist.
0220090804Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access to her letters and papers.

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.

Abridged by Rosemary Goring.

Marriage to an older man offers escape from the claustrophobia of Edinburgh society.

0320090805Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access to her letters and papers.

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.

Abridged by Rosemary Goring.

Spark's literary voice is discovered when she wins an Observer competition in 1951.

0420090806Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access to her letters and papers.

Spark's life is transformed by the publication of her fifth novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which gained critical and commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic when it was published in 1961.

Abridged by Rosemary Goring.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie earns Spark critical and commercial success.

05 LAST1999080720090807 (R4)Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access to her letters and papers.

Despite finding companionable happiness in Italy, the vexations of Spark's family life continued to intrude long into her old age.

Abridged by Rosemary Goring.

Despite finding happiness, the vexations of Spark's family life intruded into her old age.