VALERIE PURTON is a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. She is the author of A Coleridge Chronology (1993) and (with Christopher Sturman) of Poems by Two Brothers (1993). She has also edited Dickens's Dombey and Son (1996) and Landscape and Friendship (2000).

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Iris Murdoch was the author of twenty-six bestselling novels. Her many love affairs, her war-work with UNRRA, her move from early communism to Thatcherism, her later life as a secular saint, her sad decline from Alzheimer's - all these events are detailed in this accessible chronological account of a world-famous and much loved British writer.