Full name: Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire

Author: John Bayley Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393048568 9780393320794 039304856X 0393320790

John Bayley Began writing Iris and Her Friends, a companion 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. As Iris was losing her memory, Bayley was flooded with vivid recollections of his own. In lyrical reverie, Bayley recreates the unforgettable scenes of his youth, from his birth to a civil servant in colonial India to his long romance with Iris and its heartbreaking end. This is the transcendent work of a brilliant man, whose examination of the tragedies and joys of his own life will give readers great healing insight. John Bayley's Iris and Her Friends is nothing less than a classic of true love and sorrow. Similar books: Elegy for Iris by John Bayley Slim by Slim Keith Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever Testament of Friendship by Vera Brittain My Life So Far by Jane Fonda Doris Day by A. E. Hotchner My Life as Me by Barry Humphries Hidden Lives by Margaret Forster Iacocca by Lee Iacocca Memoirs by Kingsley Amis Little Girl Lost by Drew Barrymore Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser The Two of Us by Sheila Hancock After All by Mary Tyler Moore Dance While You Can by Shirley MacLaine When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls