A Severed HeadIris Murdoch

A Severed Head

Name: A Severed Head
ISBN: 9780573015274

Iris Murdoch · 1988

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Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, 'this is nothing to do with happiness'.

First sentence: 'YOU'RE sure she doesn't know,' said Georgie.