The driver’s seat
£5.99Lise is driven to distraction by her office job so, leaving everything, she flies south on holiday. But what is she looking for? Infinity and eternity attend Lise’s last terrible day in an unnamed southern city.
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Lise is driven to distraction by her office job so, leaving everything, she flies south on holiday. But what is she looking for? Infinity and eternity attend Lise’s last terrible day in an unnamed southern city.

Mrs Hawkins, a comfortably large young widow, is often called upon to administer advice to colleagues and neighbours. But she follows her own advice, too, and turns from Mrs Hawkins into Nancy – quite a different proposition.

So speaks the narrator of Muriel Spark’s haunting tale, ‘The Leaf-Sweeper’, before going on to recount the disturbing and mercilessly witty story of a certain ‘madman’ – Johnnie Geddes, hell-bent on outlawing Christmas – who meets the most terrifying of all apparitions: himself.

An elegant collector’s edition of Muriel Spark’s classic novel of one teacher’s terrible, far-reaching influence on the lives of her students.
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