One of Muriel Spark’s most accomplished moral fables or puzzles: it provides considerable insight and wit, and no easy answers.

The most intensely Sparkian of her books.

Lyrical, joyous, and formally perfect.

One of Spark’s very best novels—funny and clever and surprising.

I found it a delight from start to finish—funny, unexpected and compulsively readable—a strange, immensely enjoyable novel.

A delicious conundrum.

This literary joyride is thoroughly appealing.

A delirium of delight: robust and full-bodied, a wise and mature work, and a brilliantly mischievous one.

Unsurpassable.

I read this book in a delirium of delight. In Loitering with Intent, Miss Spark returns to the early flawless form of Memento Mori and The Comforters robust and full-bodied, a wise and mature work, and a brilliant mischievous one.