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John Bayley's tale of the unexpected Theirs was a great literary marriage, yet a year after the death of Iris Murdoch, her husband is to marry again.
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John Bayley's final years, it was assumed, would be a mere
footnote to the story of his wife, the celebrated novelist Iris
Murdoch. If he had read the script, the former English professor who
wrote so movingly about the decline of Dame Iris - who died in
February 1999 - from Alzheimer's disease, ought to have been content
to live out his final years amongst the legendary clutter the couple
shared in Oxford.
After all, when she died he showed the classic signs of
bereavement. Regarded ...
