Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch - John Bayley

I wanted to read something romantic on Valentine's Day, and following the clutch of Oscar nominations for the film Iris, I thought it was about time I read the book on which it was based. A book described by one reviewer in The Observer as the "greatest love story of our age." Dame Iris Murdoch wrote twenty-seven novels plus several books about Philosophy, of which she was a scholar. She died in February 1999, having suffered from Alzheimer's Disease since the mid-1990's. John Bayley and Iris Murdoch met beneath the dreaming spires of Oxford in the early 1950's. He was a tutor of English Lit. at St. Antony's College and she ...  Read the complete review