Iris Murdoch is grievously misunderstood. If you care about fiction, this should make you furious. Twentieth and, inevitably, twenty-first century literature, television, film, are packed with female writers whose work is dismissed.
Read MoreEvery book I read in my youth spoke to my sexuality, because I was straight: Darcy; Heathcliff; the fondue orgy in Asterix in Switzerland – I longed for them all. Later, when things became more romantically interesting, which was the book which spoke to me most strongly? There wasn’t one.
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