{"product_id":"a-fairly-honourable-defeat-by-iris-murdoch-9780099285335","title":"A Fairly Honourable Defeat","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Fairly Honourable Defeat\u003c\/em\u003e by Iris Murdoch is described as by A. S. Byatt as 'The most important novelist writing in my time'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEveryone is thinking about Julius King.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda's tormented sister, he is an obsession. For Morgan's abandoned husband, Tallis, he is the source of ruin. For Simon and Axel, deeply in love, he stirs up jealousy and unease. What is Julius thinking about? He's thinking about Hilda, Rupert, Morgan, Tallis, Simon, and Axel, and they will not all survive his malevolent attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Fairly Honourable Defeat\u003c\/em\u003e also receives critical acclaim:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Murdoch's art was expansive, non-autobiographical and insistently inventive' - \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Above all, she was a consummate story-teller, prodigiously inventive and generous' - \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by Garth Greenwell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46457319162092,"sku":"9780099285335","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8942183482223.jpg?v=1747739006","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/a-fairly-honourable-defeat-by-iris-murdoch-9780099285335","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}