Title: Iris and her friends
Description: "John Bayley began writing Iris and Her Friends, a sequel to the New York Times bestseller Elegy for Iris, late at night while his wife, the beloved novelist Iris Murdoch, succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease. In a Proustian irony, as Iris was losing her memory, Bayley was flooded with vivid recollections of his own."--BOOK JACKET.

"Avoiding the gloom associated with his family tragedy, Bayley luminously brings to life in Iris and Her Friends the remarkable story of a philosopher whose novels celebrated the goodness of everyday existence.

In bursts of vivid, lyrical reverie, Bayley also recreates the unforgettable scenes of his youth: being born to a civil servant in colonial India; his epiphanic childhood vacations at the seaside English resort Littlestone-on-Sea, which gave him his first, important glimmers of adult consciousness; his discovery of the power of literature, especially the work of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Bowen, and Marcel Proust; and of course his long romance with Iris and its heartbreaking end."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: English Novelists, Critics, Married people, Philosophers, Patients, Marriage, Alzheimer's disease, College teachers, University of Oxford, Biography, English Women novelists, Women philosophers, Large type books, Murdoch, iris, 1919-1999, Alzheimer's disease, patients, Great britain, biography
Places: Great Britain
People: Iris Murdoch, John Bayley (1925-)
Time periods: 20th century