Book Review
May. 1st, 2007 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariThe Bell
by Iris Murdoch
Murdoch writes wonderful novels reminiscent of George Eliot in their psychological insight. The Bell is about a group of people gathered at Imber Court, a lay community attached to a heavily cloistered convent. Just as the convent prepares to recive a new bell, the original medieval bell is discovered at the bottom of the lake. At the same time, the inhabitants and visitors gathered at Imber Court grapple, through a complex series of interactions, with the intersection of morality and human frailty. I found the book thoroughly absorbing and the characters very genuine.
by Iris Murdoch
Murdoch writes wonderful novels reminiscent of George Eliot in their psychological insight. The Bell is about a group of people gathered at Imber Court, a lay community attached to a heavily cloistered convent. Just as the convent prepares to recive a new bell, the original medieval bell is discovered at the bottom of the lake. At the same time, the inhabitants and visitors gathered at Imber Court grapple, through a complex series of interactions, with the intersection of morality and human frailty. I found the book thoroughly absorbing and the characters very genuine.
