![]() ![]() Our ped falls in love sort of with this kid, and falls off the wagon and kisses the kid. The leader of the community, after having managed to control himself all these years, is set up to be the mentor of an 18 year old boy who is coming to the community to work for a month before beginning university. That boy, now a grown man, shows up at the lay community to be with his twin sister. The boy ridden with guilt, squeals to the headmaster, claiming he was pressured and that the affair was actually more than it was, ruining the man’s career. The leader of the community is essentially a pedophile, having had an almost chaste affair 20 years ago with a 14 year old boy at the school where he was teaching. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean….Iris Murdoch’s funny and sad novel has themes of religion, the fight between good and evil, and the terrible accidents of human frailty.” ![]() ![]() Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. “A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. This is my favorite Murdoch novel so far. ![]()
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