FIRST LINE REVIEW: "Dame Lettie Colston refilled her fountain pen and continued her letter: One of these days I hope you will write as brilliantly on a happier theme." While one could say the very same thing of Muriel Sparks about this novel (which deals with Death), the reality is that this was filled with Life and delightfully happy...and charmingly funny. "Remember you must die." Despite constant reminders of this memento mori, the elderly characters populating this small masterpiece don't seem to do so. But die they all do...and the path toward their inevitable ends is presented with comic pathos and profound insights designed to remind us all.