'Richard Eyre has taken a highly unusual story about two very singular people - a story saturated with oddity, quiddity, exceptionality - and he has imbued it with the universal' Martin Amis, Guardian

Based on John Bayley's memoirs, 'Iris' tells the moving story of the 40-year love affair between him and the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch. From the romance of their early days at Oxford in the 1950s to her devastating decline in the grip of Alzheimer's disease in the late 1990s, 'Iris' is a tender portrait of a marriage that survives even through life's most tragic and mysterious occurrences. Blurring the boundaries between past and present, 'Iris' captures the relationship of two brilliant intellectuals, determinedly unwordly and yet utterly devoted to each other. It is a story of enduring love. Included in this book are the complete shooting script written by Richard Eyre and Charles Wood, a new introduction by Richard Eyre, interviews with John Bayley, Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent and Hugh Bonneville, dozens of stills from the film, biographies of the cast and crew, and complete credits.

Thanks to Mike Kennedy for sending this blurb from Bloomsbury Magazine. This book will be released mid-February and I will post a link at that time.

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