The Driver's Seat

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Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and new experiences takes on a far darker significance as she heads on a journey of self-destruction. Infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in an unnamed southern city, as she meets her fate. Described as a metaphysical shocker at the time of its release, Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat is a taut psychological thriller. The novel was adapted into a 1974 film, Identikit, starring Elizabeth Taylor. 'An extraordinary tour de force, a crime story turned inside out' — David Lodge 'Her spiny and treacherous masterpiece' — New Yorker