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Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Meanwhile a cohort of interested parties circle. The ''Count'', a Polish man in exile watches over Gertrude with loving patience. Tim, a failed painter, plans with his punk girlfriend to live off his rich friends. Who will judge whom in this intricate pattern of love and deceit? Who will behave well and who badly? Who will be lucky?

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Nuns and Soldiers

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    A Paperback / softback by Iris Murdoch

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 5 July 2001
      ISBN-13 9780099285359
      978-0099285359
      ISBN-10 0099285355

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Meanwhile a cohort of interested parties circle. The ''Count'', a Polish man in exile watches over Gertrude with loving patience. Tim, a failed painter, plans with his punk girlfriend to live off his rich friends. Who will judge whom in this intricate pattern of love and deceit? Who will behave well and who badly? Who will be lucky?

      Trade Review
      A power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist * Sunday Times *
      She is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour * The Times *

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