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The Bachelors

The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse. It demands rediscovery. `It`s easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors. On one level, it is a blithely carnivorous satire in the Waugh mould. The bachelors of the title – almost the only men we meet in the narrative – are the thirty-something male barristers, teachers, journalists and museum attendants of a small patch of West London. They lead inturned, doddery, superannuated lives, pottering between grocers, coffee-houses, bedsits and the houses of their mothers and aunts. But the comedy here is serious in a way that Waugh`s satanically energetic comedies of misery rarely are …comedies of English manners have seldom been darker` Daily Telegraph `My admiration for Spark`s contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent – the creme de la creme` Ian Rankin `Muriel Spark`s novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive` John Updike, New Yorker

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