LIVING ON PAPER - Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934–1995
Here, for the first time, is Iris Murdoch’s life in her own words, from her schoolgirl days to her last years.
The
letters show a great mind at work – we see the young Murdoch struggling
with philosophical issues and witness her anguish when a novel won’t
come together. As well as her sharp sense of humour and irreverence,
they also reveal her personal life, the subject of much speculation, in
all its complexity: her emotional hunger and her tendency to live on the
edge of what was socially acceptable. We see how this fed into her
novels’ plots and characters, despite her claims that her fiction was
not drawn from reality.
The jacket bears an image of Iris at work by Anthony Armstrong Jones, used by permission of Trunk Archive.
Published by Chatto & Windus in November 2015
