Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/04/2002
ISBN: 9780099429128
Length: 416 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
Weight: 287g
RRP: £9.99
Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job.
When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/04/2002
ISBN: 9780099429128
Length: 416 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
Weight: 287g
RRP: £9.99
Deeply moving and entertaining
The readability of a novel like A Word Child is almost appallingly powerful
It would be difficult to speak too highly of the extraordinary skill and confidence here displayed
From the beginning of her career, Iris Murdoch seemed to enlarge the possibilities in front of the English novel. She was a writer of wonderful, and sometimes rather alarming idiosyncrasy... Hers was a liberating and a generous imagination