About the Author

Peter Conradi is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. His previous publications include studies of the work of John Fowles, Dostoevsky and Angus Wilson. He edited Iris Murdoch’s Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Literature and Philosophy (1997).

Reviews

'Brilliant' New York Times Book Review 'This excellent and distinguished book had considerable influence on my own thinking' Malcolm Bradbury 'In my view, the best work on her novels and thought now in print. Conradi reads her novels both wisely and attentively, and ranges widely round them; his study of her Platonism is both just and rigorous' A.S. Byatt 'A valuable study. Conradi has a lively, curious, energetic mind and his enthusiasm for his subject is warming' Studies in the Novel