The Sandcastle (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)

By: Iris Murdoch

Narrated by: Juliet Aubrey

Brought to you by Penguin.

VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.

‘It’s all dry sand running through the fingers.’

When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife Nan and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence?

©1957 Iris Murdoch (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

How bloody good her novels are – how intelligent, how lucent, how divinely crazy. They’re fun – I’d forgotten that. (Sarah Waters)

One of her most haunting works... She is spectacularly enigmatic (Philippa Gregory)

A Greatly peculiar Murdoch

This is the 10th Murdoch I have read (or rather, listened to) and I am baffled by how much her works could truly be identified as "a Murdocy", yet have absolutely nothing in common. This one was peculiar and philosophical (maybe less than "The Unicorn", my most favorite Murdoch) and the narrator did an incredible job with different characters. She was so good with the stutter of a character that I actually had to stop listening for an hour to get over that brilliance before resuming.