Nevertheless

August 1937: Nineteen-year-old Muriel Spark is
making her way from Edinburgh to Southern Rhodesia in search of a new
life with her husband-to-be. What she discovers is a country of divides,
the sharpest between husband and wife. When the world goes to war around
her, she must find and follow her literary destiny to survive.

November
2016: Duncan, a young Scottish doctor from Aberdeen, unknowingly traces
Spark’s steps in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and similarly faces up to the
reality of life in the edge.

Nevertheless is a series of
short fictions published in celebration of Muriel Spark’s centenary in
2018, with support from Creative Scotland. Best known as the author of
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Dame Muriel Spark was a poet, writer of
fiction, criticism and literary biography, and was at the top of her
profession, internationally, for more than half a century.