The Driver's Seat cover art

The Driver's Seat

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Driver's Seat

By: Muriel Spark
Narrated by: Dame Judi Dench
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking. One day she walks out of her office, acquires a gaudy new outfit, adopts a girlier tone of voice, and heads to the airport to fly south. On the plane, she takes a seat between two men. One is delighted with her company, the other is deeply perturbed. So begins an unnerving journey into the darker recesses of human nature.

Read by Dame Judi Dench, rediscover this shocking masterpiece in audiobook on the 100th anniversary of Muriel Spark's birth.

©1970 Muriel Spark (P)1996 Canongate Audiobooks Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Scary

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Complete Short Stories cover art
Cakes and Ale cover art
Lolly Willowes cover art
Pietr the Latvian cover art
The New York Trilogy cover art
A Room of One's Own cover art
The Moon And Sixpence cover art
Barbara Pym: A BBC Radio Drama Collection cover art
Hannay: His 5 Adventures cover art
An Imaginative Experience cover art
Mrs. Dalloway cover art
Mother Night cover art
The Untouchable cover art
Talking It Over cover art
The Glass Pearls cover art
Wise Children cover art

Critic reviews

"An extraordinary tour de force, a crime story turned inside out." (David Lodge)
"Her spiny and treacherous masterpiece."( The New Yorker)
All stars
Most relevant  
Couldn't put it down - beautifully narrated - and observed details would definitely recommend - I thinks I will read it many times!

Fabulous novella

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I started to listen to this on Audible as I was intrigued by the reviews and the story, also I needed a short story. Im sorry but the story although beautifully read by Dame Judi Dench, didn’t grab me at all. Although short I found it wandering and tedious. Wouldn’t recommend

Murder with a good twist

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
magnificient reading, very good story, highly recommended, one of those that will stay with me and that l will come back to

excellent!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Simply sublime. Beautifully read and suitably cold-hearted.Good length for a singlr listen. Bracing and gripping as a thriller.

Elegant and creepy

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Very good, very Muriel Spark but more depressing than most others of hers I’ve read.

Very good

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Razor sharp wit of Spark nuanced perfectly by the Dame. Utterly sublime. But...oh so dark.

Bitter honey.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Brilliant narration from Judi Dench, personally found slight background noise irritating, however not too noticeable.

Massively bleak, alluring in its absurdity

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Spark did a fantastic job of evoking a sense of impending doom throughout, felt by both the self-fulfilling protagonist and the captivated reader. A very interesting read I must say. The Drivers Seat is my first venture into Spark and it certainly won’t be my last.

8/10. Deep and Puzzling.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is without a doubt one of the most extraordinary books I have ever read. Muriel Spark’s masterpiece. It reminded me of Truman Capote’s ‘Miriam’.

A masterpiece

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Any additional comments?

I thought the book a bit light on everything. By the time it ended, I would have helped see off the central character! I love Judi's reading!

Judi Dench Makes This Experience!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews