{"product_id":"memento-mori","title":"Muriel Spark: Memento Mori [2017] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescribed by David Lodge as 'her first masterpiece', Memento Mori opens with a telephone call and the words 'Remember you must die'. Over several months, a circle of elderly men and women receive similar calls and everyone becomes a suspect. As the investigating police inspector muses: 'Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile immersed in the indignities of old age, dementia and death, this novel is both profoundly compassionate and entertaining.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publishers acknowledge investment from Creative Scotland towards the publication of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSupported by the Muriel Spark Society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spark, Muriel \u0026 Strachan, Zoe \u0026 Taylor, Alan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46504017330515,"sku":"9781846974274","price":12.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/spark-muriel-strachan-zoe-taylor-alan-muriel-spark-memento-mori-2017-hardback-9781846974274-1160085977.jpg?v=1746048444","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/memento-mori","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}