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John Bayley's account of his long and loving marriage to the great novelist Iris Murdoch takes us on a journey, from their love affair's comically inauspicious beginnings in the Oxford of the early fifties (Bayley courted Iris on account of her unchallenging plain looks and their first date... read more

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A hot day. Stagnant, humid. By normal English standards really hot, insufferably hot.

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Duckworth
Country: England
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0715628488
Page Count: 192

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