But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel - independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic. (David Nicholls)

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel - independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

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