Library Journal
Spark's 1960 novel follows a group of British bachelors whose cozy little world is shattered when they suddenly find themselves the target of blackmail, fraud, and other bits of nastiness courtesy of one of the lads. Spark is always a great read. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
Spectator - A N WILSON
She has a receptive and wholly distinctive genius
New Yorker
Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit
IAN RANKIN
My admiration for Spark's contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the cr me de la cr me
EVELYN WAUGH
I am dazzled by The Bachelors. It is the cleverest and most elegant of all Mrs Spark's clever and elegant books
Daily Telegraph
It's easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors. But the comedy here is serious in a way that Waugh's satanically energetic comedies of misery rarely are . . . comedies of English manners have rarely been darker
ANDREW MOTION
A wholly original presence in modern literature
New Yorker - John Updike
Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive
New York Times Book Review
A profoundly serious comic writer whose wit advances, never undermines or diminishes, her ideas
