Muriel Spark’s blackly comic masterwork begins with a voice on the telephone warning, “Remember, you must die.” The recipient of the grim message is elderly Dame Lettie Colston, but soon ten of Lettie’s oldest friends also become targets of Death’s anonymous herald. A bizarre investigation lays bare an intricate network of deception and disloyalty that binds together the vulnerable group of aging eccentrics.
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie comes a provocative, disturbing, but hilarious tale of mortality, morality, and the phenomenon called old age.
