Name: Symposium
ISBN: 9781560541646

Muriel Spark

Symposium

This is the story of a dinner party, a knot of people with pasts and connections which at first seem few but are later found to be many ... The prevailing mood is urbane: the wine is poured, the talk continues, and all the time the ice on which the protagonists' world rests is being thinned from beneath by boiling emotions and ugly motives ... No living writer handles the tension between formality of expression and the subversiveness of thought more elegantly' Candia McWilliam, Independent on Sunday

Louisa

Wow! Not what I was expecting before I started it, nor what I was expecting once I started the book and read the first few chapters, and proof that a short book can be intricate and impactful.