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Biografisk notat
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne's College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.Iris Murdoch is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour
The Times
Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century
Guardian
Of the novelists who have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable
- Raymond Mortimer,
When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being.
Suddenly there is joy to be found in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife Nan and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence?
‘One of her most haunting works... She is spectacularly enigmatic’ Philippa Gregory
‘An absolutely scintillating, slightly bizarre page-turner’ Daily Mail
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BIDISHA