The Driver's Seat

 

This was a pretty good read from writer Muriel Spark. I read this over ten years ago and decided it needed another rereading. I remembered it being edgy and it lived up to its memory. The main character Lise is a mess and she's on a self-destructive journey. When she is on an airplane a man immediately changes his seat. It's just his gut instinct that something is off with this woman. The ending is unpredictable. I was expecting her to end up with the new age guy but the novella had a different direction in mind. I liked The Girls of Slender Means and it was more subtle. The Driver's Seat wants to push the envelope though and if anything it shows that Muriel Spark was a pretty versatile writer. I read it in a few days.