Publisher's Synopsis
Fleur Talbot loiters at the "grubby edges of the literary world", gathering material for her novel and working for the mysterious Autobiographical Association. When Sir Quentin, the association's director, steals the manuscript of Fleur's novel-in-progress, mayhem ensues. Fiction appropriates life as scenes are acted out exactly as Fleur has already written them. And as the larger-than-life characters meet darkly funny, pre-ordained fates, the boundaries between art and reality start to blur... A fine example of Spark's involved plots, unhurried pace and willingness to poke at the eccentricities of human behaviour.
