The Comforters by Muriel Spark

From the publisher:

"A spectacular first novel: fascinating." -The New Yorker

With her now-signature air of easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail; a drowning; nervous breakdowns; a loathsome busybody; a diabolist bookseller; human evil. These—along with a ring of smugglers and a metaphysical trap to be sprung—are Spark’s meat, served up here in dazzling and rigorous fashion.

224 pages. 5" x 8". Softcover.