Thursday 25 February 2021

Take two: ‘The Sandcastle,' Iris Murdoch

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Despite the stuffy cover, this electric novel does two different things. One is to describe, in terms conducive to creating in the reader’s mind a picture, a community rooted in the period before the postwar counterculture arrived on the scene. To read this book is almost to practice archaeology. The other thing the book does is to outline the profile of human desire. A wonderful experience which has made me keen to read more books by this forgotten author.

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