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The Comforters
''The Comforters'' is the first novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark. She drew on experiences as a recent convert to Catholicism and having suffered hallucinations due to using Dexedrine, an amphetamine then available over the counter for dieting. Although completed in late 1955, the book was not published until 1957. A mutual friend, novelist Alan Barnsley, had sent the proofs to Evelyn Waugh. At the time Waugh was writing ''The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold,'' which dealt with his own drug-induced hallucinations.
Waugh's and others positive responses prompted Macmillan to publish the novel in February 1957 in the United Kingdom, and it was also published that same year in the United States. The novel's quick success enabled Spark to give up editorial work and devote herself to full-time creative writing.〔(Eldrid Deleu, ''God versus the Author: Manipulation in Muriel Spark's The Comforters and Loitering with Intent'' ), submitted August 2009, Ghent University〕〔(Martin Stannard, "A girl of slender means" ), ''The Guardian'', 17 July 2009, accessed 11 January 2014〕 It has been published in several editions in the United Kingdom and the United States since then.
==Plot: Introduction==
The central character is Caroline Rose, a novelist recently converted to Catholicism. On returning from a retreat, she starts hearing voices and the sound of a typewriter. The words she hears seem to coincide exactly with her own thoughts. Meanwhile her boyfriend Lawrence, who has been staying with his grandmother in Sussex, discovers the older woman is involved in smuggling.
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