Publisher's Synopsis
This is one of Iris Murdoch's best-loved novels, now available in the Collected Edition, which was dramatized by J.B.Priestley and also filmed. Events adulterous, incestuous, violent and hilarious are combined aiming to make this a comic and enjoyable novel. Other titles in the Collected Edition include "The Bell" and "The Red and The Green". Iris Murdoch has won several awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Literary Award and The Booker McConnell Prize. She is also author of 30 books covering drama, philosophy and poetry and some 23 novels.
