© Naklada Ljevak, 2013
Set in London at the beginning of the sexual revolution, Murdoch's novel exposes the mixture of liberality and conventionality that governs the relationships between her cast of middle-class characters. Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a 41-year old well-to-do wine merchant, is conveniently married to Antonia and happily pursuing a secret affair with Georgie when his wife announces her wish to divorce him and marry her psychoanalyst, Alexander Palmer. Rather than seize the opportunity to disclose his own trespass and live openly with his mistress, Martin falls head over heels for Palmer's half-sister, Honor Klein - a woman whose demonic splendour arouses a consuming and monstrous passion.
Viking Press 1961
Translated into: Croatian
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