Authoress with a last letter and article to follow spy novel (7,2,4)
I believe the answer is:
eyeless in gaza
'novel' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'authoress with a last letter and article to follow spy' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' is within the answer.
'letter' could be 'sin' (sin is a kind of letter) and 'sin' is found within the answer.
'article' could be 'a' (the indefinite article in English) and 'a' is found within the answer.
'spy' could be 'eye' (both can mean to see) and 'eye' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for eyeless in gaza that I've seen before include "way blind man in Milton finished up" , "Aldous Huxley novel" .)