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Like a Cat Loves a Bird
The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird
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James Bailey
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FRANCESCA WADE, author of Square Haunting
"Utterly charming. A book as elegant, sharp-witted and mischievous as its subject"
CLARE POLLARD, author of Delphi
"Like a Spark novel, the moment my eyes met the page I knew I wouldn't be able to stop reading . . . A magnificent piece of work"
ROBIN INCE
"She was, if you believe what you read in the papers: a genius, a survivor, a bad mother, a fickle friend, a closeted lesbian, a tyrant, a loner, an eccentric, a recluse, a gossip, and an arch-manipulator. She would politely encourage you not to believe what you read in the papers."
Muriel Spark was one of literature's great shapeshifters. That mercurial quality is found in her strange, brilliant, cruel novels - with their plots featuring pensioners receiving telephone calls from Death, the devil going clubbing in Peckham and a fascist schoolmistress leading her coterie of girls astray - but it is also true of her as a person.
As sly, nimble and elegant as Spark's own work, Like a Cat Loves a Bird is a thrilling new perspective on a remarkable life and career that spanned much of the twentieth century. From her childhood in Edinburgh to her final years in Tuscany - via South Africa, London, New York and Rome - it traces a light-footed journey around the world and through her strange and magnificent bibliography. It tells an irresistible story of transformation, wit and fierce determination and makes a passionate case for this vital modern artist.
"You don't have to be a Muriel Spark fan to enjoy the sharp wit of Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a fascinating and nuanced exploration of the sacrifices some make to focus on their art"
LUKE TURNER, author of Out of the Woods
"Vital, fun and immediate . . . full of engaging and astute literary analysis of Spark's work as well as scintillating, vivid biography"
FRANCESCA REECE, author of Glass Houses
"A readable and fascinating book, about an under-appreciated literary giant"
LUCINDA HAWKSLEY, author of The Mystery of Princess Louise©2026 James Bailey
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Clever ... Spark's nine lives, also presented as a "series of flickering sparks", neatly capture both the slipperiness and the picaresque quality of this most elusive of subjects ... [Bailey's] Spark is a likeable monster and his wit and playfulness are well suited to his subject. He is a good close reader and this is a biography that will delight those who admire Spark's 22 novels and intrigue those who are new readers or who know only The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Paula Byrne)
Inventive not inventing ... Bailey's approach isn't a conventional "life" so much as a hybrid of literary criticism, personal appreciation and a novel (David Robinson)
Bailey's slippery Spark is chaotic, complex, often hilarious, and constantly shapeshifting. His kaleidoscopic portrait illuminates Spark's life and work from every angle, yet - crucially - allows her the freedom she craved to confound and elude those who would try to pin her down. This is a deeply stylish, astute and illuminating biography of a fascinating writer (Francesca Wade, author of SQUARE HAUNTING)
Astute . . . a welcome addition for anyone caught in the mental claws of one of the most elusive and brilliant writers of modern times (Martin Chilton)
Incisive . . . memorable (Ysenda Maxton Graham)
Utterly charming. A book as elegant, sharp-witted and mischievous as its subject. If you love literary biography, you'll feel like the cat that got the cream (Clare Pollard, author of DELPHI)
What an exciting piece of writing - like a Spark novel, the moment my eyes met the page I knew I wouldn't be able to stop reading - it will be quite impossible for anyone to read this and not immediately feel the urgent need to read everything she wrote. A magnificent piece of work (Robin Ince)
You don't have to be a Muriel Spark fan to enjoy the sharp wit of Like A Cat Loves A Bird, a fascinating and nuanced exploration of the sacrifices some make to focus on their art. Bailey toys with Spark as the title implies - but there's an implication too that so does she, with her biographer and her readers, on the page, and from beyond the grave (Luke Turner, author of OUT OF THE WOODS)
Beautifully written ... a readable and fascinating book, about an under-appreciated literary giant (Lucinda Hawksley, author of THE MYSTERY OF PRINCESS LOUISE)
Vital, fun and immediate. Like a Cat Loves a Bird is lithe and compelling, and full of engaging and astute literary analysis of Spark's work as well as scintillating, vivid biography. A must-read for devotees (Francesca Reece, author of GLASS HOUSES)
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