Nuns and Soldiers (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Iris Murdoch
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1970’s
- Setting: London and southern France
- Principal Characters: Guy Openshaw, Gertrude Openshaw, Tim Reede, Daisy Barrett, Anne Cavidge, Peter Szczepanski
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, France or French people, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Art or artists, Religion, Friendship, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Obsession, England or English people, Cancer, Feminism, Lesbianism or lesbians, Death or dying, Good and evil, London, Remarriage, Women’s movement, Christ figures or saviors, Wealth, Convents or nunneries, Nuns
- Locales: France, London, England
The Story:
Guy Openshaw, an administrator in the British Home Office, lay dying in his luxurious Ebury Street flat. A coterie of friends and relatives dropped in frequently to console his wife, Gertrude. One evening Gertrude received a call from Anne Cavidge, once her best friend at Cambridge, who had been a cloistered nun for fifteen years. Anne had left the order and returned to the world. Gertrude invited Anne to stay with her at Ebury Street. Guy died after telling Gertrude that she might consider the Count for her next husband. In her terrible grief Gertrude elicited...
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