These are three short and early novels by the Scottish writer Muriel Spark. I am rereading the latter two.   Memento Mori This novel begins with a phone call to an older Dame at a retirement home. The caller tells the woman “You must remember that you will die” and this mysterious and potentially scary call becomes the the central plot to the novel, and opens up to a darkly funny story as the call repeats over and over again. As the call repeats, and […]