Introduction Have you ever read a novel that left you feeling both impressed and a little disturbed, as though you’d peered into a place where fiction and real life start to blur? Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat does just that—a slim novella, but one whose philosophical impact lingers long after you’ve closed the final page. I read it first as a graduate student tucked in a tiny campus flat, sandwiched between investigations of George Orwell’s bleak London and Alice Walker’s...