A Far Cry from Kensington (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Muriel Sarah Camberg
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1954-1955
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Nancy Hawkins, Hector Bartlett, Wanda Podolak, Emma Loy, Milly Sanders, William Todd
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Suicide, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Writing, Blackmail, London, Cults, Widows or widowers
- Locales: London, England
In Muriel Spark's eighteenth novel she returns to a setting similar to that of her Loitering with Intent (1981). Both novels are set in London in the years of austerity following World War II, and both feature a female first-person narrator who is involved in the literary world. Both touch on fringe religion and the occult, as well as blackmail (the latter features in almost every novel Muriel Spark writes), and both have a cast of brilliantly created, eccentric, but believable characters, who never lose their effectiveness for the reader by slipping into caricature.
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