The Bachelors by Muriel Spark

A darkly comic novel that follows a circle of respectable London bachelors whose routine, bureaucratic lives are unsettled by the arrival of an enigmatic outsider and the fallout from a scandal and criminal investigation; through sharp, ironic prose it explores themes of gullibility, religious pretension, identity and moral ambiguity as hidden motives and deceptions come to light.

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