But over the course of the next 140 pages Spark convinces me that Humphrey probably made the right decision. My impression after reading the first page was poor Dixie, what an awful thing to happen to her. Spark’s narrative is full of surprises, the first, and most obvious of which, is that the author begins her story at the end. The “he” is Humphrey, who has recently jilted his bride-to-be, Dixie, at the altar and the “she” is Dixie’s mother. ‘Showing your face round here again,’ she said.
‘There’s a dirty swine in every man,’ he said. ‘Get away from here, you dirty swine,’ she said. This is my first Muriel Spark book (thanks to Grant at 1st Reading for giving me the nudge to try her) and I knew from these opening sentences that I would enjoy her writing very much:
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