As a book it makes barely a hundred pages in largish type. Macmillan
's London edition followed in September, with a slightly reduced print-run of 15,000. The dedication to Dario Ambrosiani
on its first appearance...
Family and Intimate relationships
Muriel Spark
Her biographer mentions a boyfriend in her early days in Rome, a young painter named Woody Bassett
. After him the Italian-American Dario Ambrosiani
, was her escort for some years,
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
