A revolutionary book. When Spark published her first novel, The Comforters, in 1957, it was recognised as unique - something that quite simply had never been done before. Wilson\'s achievement in Electric Spark is equally remarkable: an entirely original method of life writing which leaves conventional biographical techniques gasping in the dust . . . Electric Spark heaves with ghosts and furies, burglaries and blackmail. It is disquieting and absolutely mesmerising. I was possessed by this book in the same way that I suspect its author was possessed by Spark. It still hasn\'t put me down Lisa Hilton Spectator