Download or read book A Far Cry from Kensington written by Muriel Spark and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fraying fringes of 1950s literary London Rich and slim, the celebrated author Nancy Hawkins takes us in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London, where she spends her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher (“of very good books”) and her nights dispensing advice at her small South Kensington rooming house. Everywhere Mrs. Hawkins finds evil: with aplomb, however, she confidently sets about putting things to order, to terrible effect.