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The Sandcastle (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)

By: Iris Murdoch
Narrated by: Juliet Aubrey
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Brought to you by Penguin.

VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.

‘It’s all dry sand running through the fingers.’

When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife Nan and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence?

©1957 Iris Murdoch (P)2020 Penguin Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Funny

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Critic reviews

How bloody good her novels are – how intelligent, how lucent, how divinely crazy. They’re fun – I’d forgotten that. (Sarah Waters)
One of her most haunting works... She is spectacularly enigmatic (Philippa Gregory)
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what a heautifuk and elegant reading. these renditions are always a joy. thank you 😊

super super Iris

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The reading was excellent. The different characters were voiced very well, and the narrative was read well, and unobtrusively.

The story was insightful and gripping. Interesting discussions about art, in particular, painting.

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Beautifully descriptive but a weak story line and a disappointing end.
Not one of her better books

Not one of her better books I am afraid.

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I love iris murdochs writing but this story is spun out and is a real anticlimax. Amazing how easily people fell in love in those days- and the man in the story is really so dull one cant imagine how the young woman could
love him. But very well read

Not her best

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