Download or read book Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire written by John Bayley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As his wife, beloved novelist Iris Murdoch, succumbed to Alzheimer's, John Bayley wrote his own recollections as a companion piece to "Elegy for Iris". Sharing his memories from childhood as a civil servant in colonial India to his long romance with Iris and its heartbreaking end, Bayley's examinations of his own life offer readers great healing insight.