'One of the best and most important writers writing in English-dazzlingly entertaining and inventive' - The Times
Iris Murdoch (Author)
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.
John Burnside (Introducer)
Amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation, John Burnside
has just been awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's
achievement in literature. His novels, short stories, poetry and
memoirs have won numerous other awards, including the Geoffrey
Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Petrarca
Prize and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011 Black Cat
Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. His
most recent books are The Music of Time- Poetry in the Twentieth
Century and Aurochs and Auks- Essays on Mortality and Extinction.
He is a professor in the School of English at St Andrews
University.
Dazzlingly entertaining and inventive
*The Times*
One of the most ambitious tours de force in many years... There are
pages one races through to see what happens. She is a virtuoso at
description
*Daily Mail*
She was a brilliantly clever woman
*Dame Judi Dench*
There is no doubt in my mind that Iris Murdoch is one of the most
important novelists now writing in English...The power of her
imaginative vision, her intelligence and her awareness and
revelation of human truth are quite remarkable
*The Times*
A fabulous novel...funny and poignant and is arguably Murdoch's
finest hour
*Daily Express*
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