Las voces

This is a novel. A novel in which its protagonist, Caroline Rose, a potential writer recently converted to Catholicism, hears voices. Specifically, the voice and keys of the machine of the person who is writing this novel. She knows that she is a character from a novel and luckily the novel is fascinating, hilarious, and profound. Sometimes though she will try to change said novel. Her partners in this story are amazing. For example, Laurence, her partner, has a charming and seemingly harmless grandmother. But she discovers that she and a gang of spies could be dealing in diamonds hidden inside bread. We all would like to live in a Muriel Spark novel, where nothing is what it seems. Where it seems that everything is funny and ingenious, but it can be harsh and sinister. Muriel Spark, who also converted to Catholicism and suffered a nervous breakdown, wrote 22 ultrapersonal and effervescent novels. A career that she began, precisely, with this story.