- Published: 1 May 2010
- ISBN: 9781409043584
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
The Sea, The Sea (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)
A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick
- Published: 1 May 2010
- ISBN: 9781409043584
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
Dazzlingly entertaining and inventive
The Times
One of the most ambitious tours de force in many years... There are pages one races through to see what happens. She is a virtuoso at description
Daily Mail
There is no doubt in my mind that Iris Murdoch is one of the most important novelists now writing in English...The power of her imaginative vision, her intelligence and her awareness and revelation of human truth are quite remarkable
The Times
A fantastic feat of imagination as well as a marvellous sustained piece of writing
Vogue
It isn't all brainy fantasising in Murdochland; there's wild swimming, appalling sandwiches, death, madness and sex.
Guardian
How bloody good her novels are – how intelligent, how lucent, how divinely crazy. They’re fun – I’d forgotten that
Sarah Waters, Guardian
It was the first book I read by this brilliant author, and encouraged me to go on and read almost all her others. It is at times incredibly funny, moving and mysterious. Murdoch creates drama in the real world with flawed humans and yet there is also a spiritual layer that creeps up on you
Jude Law
Just like the sea, this novel ebbs and flows, at times fast-paced and full of action, at others reflective… a mesmerising and addictive read
Woman's Weekly
The Sea, The Sea is both a novel entirely about the era in which it was written and one that reflects – at an angle – the place and time we are living in… it is a joy to read: a rollicking story that seems endlessly to be building towards some awful, hilarious, frightening conclusion
Daisy Johnson, Harper's Bazaar