Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire »

Born in India in 1925, John Bayley was educated at Eton and Oxford. He became a fellow of New College in 1955, where he taught English. In 1956, he married the novelist Iris Murdoch, who was then teaching philosophy at St. Anne's College. Bayley is an eminent literary critic and the author of Iris and Her Friends and Elegy for Iris. He has since remarried. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and an active supporter of Alzheimer's International, Bayley still lives and writes in Oxford, England.

A timeless work that will bring healing to anyone dealing with the loss of a loved one.

Sunday Telegraph

With these three books, Bayley has written a minor masterpiece for the confessional age...