Some three weeks’ earlier, Humphrey had said ‘no’ at the altar, walking out on Dixie and a church full of guests. It’s wonderfully dark and twisted, characteristically Sparkian in its unconventional view.Ĭentral to the narrative is young Dougal Douglas who, on his arrival in Peckham from Scotland, sets about wreaking havoc on the community, disturbing the residents’ lives in the most insidious of ways.Īs the novella opens, people are discussing an aborted wedding involving Dixie Morse, a typist at Meadows, Meade & Grindley (a local textiles’ factory), and Humphrey Place, a refrigerator engineer.
I loved this novella, especially the first half.
The gloriously off-kilter world of Muriel Spark continues to be a source of fascination for me.
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