From twice Bookershortlisted author Deborah Levy a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writerIn The Position of Spoons Deborah Levy traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her including a letter to her dying mother and to an absent friend. This volume illuminates and celebrates a rich and varied intellectual inheritance and reflects on how it has enriched the authors own work. Taking in questions of mortality language gender place consumerism and everyday living the acclaimed novelist invites her reader behind the curtain of a creative life in which the position of the spoon is always changing.Levys writing is dreamy but diamondsharp prismatic droll and devastating .