me as she had. Rose Stanley never had the affair with Teddy Lloyd and eventually made a good marriage. Mary McGregor died young in a fire, Sandy Stranger became a nun and the others seemed to retain control over their own preferences.
             Muriel Spark adopts an unusual narrative style by using flashbacks and flash forwards in the novel that allows the reader to understand why certain characters have developed in certain ways. Flashbacks give the reader brief glances of the past that help the reader to understand the present. However Spark's use of flashforwards is the more interesting device because it allows the reader to understand the consequences of the character's actions. On one level the time-scale of the novel em
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