The Bachelors by Muriel Spark (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1961)
An early novel–the fourth?–of Spark’s many novels, The Bachelors is set in London and revolves around two groups: one (mostly, or ostensibly, heterosexual) bachelors, the other a group of spiritualists, who conduct seances with a venal criminal as a medium. The plot centers upon a court case and trial that brings these two groups together in an entertaining way, and the novel has a large and varied cast of vividly eccentric characters.
One of these, Ronald Bridges, a graphologist and epileptic, is the decent moral center of the book, and endears himself to the reader and pretty much everyone around him.
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