A brilliant, controversial and insightful biography from the\nauthor of the universally acclaimedThe Victorians. A.N. Wilson’s\ntutor at Oxford was John Bayley, and it was there that Wilson met\nIrish Murdoch. He remained a close friend of them both, and it was\nat Iris’s pleading in 1988 that he agreed to write her biography.\nThe biography was bound to be controversial, and Wilson pulls no\npunches in his attack on Bayley’s own book on Iris and the\nportrayal of her as an Alzheimer’s victim. Instead, he gives us\nback the fiercely intelligent novelist and philosopher, and shows\nus a relationship that was deeply loving yet profoundly eccentric,\nand very unconventional for its day. From the Hardcover\nedition.

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