SOURCE: Price, R. G. G. “Short Stories.” Punch 256, no. 6705 (12 March 1969): 398.

In the following review, Price offers high praise for The Spark, calling it a brilliant volume of fiction.

The Spark is so intelligent, many-sided and, I'm afraid, brilliantly written that my lack of response makes me feel guilty, almost gauche. Somehow its great merits mean only that the kind of thing which people have been doing for a generation or more is done better than ever. Funny, disquieting and showing every sign of hard work, it sparkles but doesn't linger in the mind. What it lacks is what Lawrence had, thirst for life and the courage to keep the vivid phrases to heel.