The Abbess of Crewe Christopher Fowler Anthony Gilbert

Anthony Gilbert

Victorian England

entertaining and educational voice in contemporary British crime fiction

there's going to be a terrible war

ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a beak

The Abbess of Crewe Christopher Fowler Anthony GilbertThe Abbess of Crewe is Muriel Spark's razor sharp, wickedly humorous and surreal satire of a real life political scandal reimagined within the claustrophobic walls of a convent. A steely, Machiavellian nun, secret surveillance, corruption, cloak and dagger plotting, rivalries and a rigged election all send the wonderful cast of characters into disarray as a chain of events unfold that become weirder and weirder.