Name: The Driver's Seat
Rating: 3.086206896551724 (29 reviews)

Muriel Spark

Lise leaves her home in northern Europe for a holiday, but it is not rest and relaxation that she is looking for.

The Driver's Seat

Shortlisted for The Lost Man Booker Prize 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 the obsessional experience 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.

gingy :3

I think I need to leave this unrated for now while I stew on it and/or read it again. I think I liked it?

Grace M

Regan Martin

I read this twice. It’s insane. Insane to the point that I have nothing else to say about it. No, you know what? I do have something else to say. I wonder if this book inspired Sally Rooney’s narration style in Beautiful World. And I mean it’s admirable to try to emulate anything at all about this book. But there’s just no way it can be done

Margo Koss

Shreya Punj

This book is so dark and terrifying. With each passing sentence I felt my sense of foreboding turn into just boding. 

Muriel Sparks is brilliant!

Christopher McCaffery

Gary Homewood

Starts out as a late 60s satire of a slightly eccentric female protagonist quitting her slightly dull job and travelling to Europe in a garish outfit. Gets madder and increasingly unhinged, ends up in a genuinely disturbing and very dark place. Short, gripping and subversive.

jam 🍯

Tarlan Asadli

Lise leaves her home in northern Europe for a holiday, but it is not rest and relaxation that she is looking for...

The Driver's Seat

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