A Word Child

by IrisMurdoch (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1986

  $4.15

• Used

  Paperback
  1977

  $4.96

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $12.29

  Saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and disappointment in a dull, orderly civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition.