This author of The Philosopher's Pupil also wrote a novel whose title object is thrown into a lake near Imber Abbey after a nun refuses to disclose an affair.
In one of this author's novels, George McCaffrey sees a flying saucer after attempting to drown his former professor John Robert Rozanov. Another of this author's novels follows Bradley Pearson, who incriminates himself in Rachel Baffin's murder of her husband Arnold. This author of The Philosopher's Pupil also wrote a novel whose title object is thrown into a lake near Imber Abbey after a nun refuses to disclose an affair. She had a lifelong affair with Philippa Foot, despite being married to John Bayley, and won the Booker Prize for a novel in which Charles Arrowby becomes obsessed with his first love, Mary Fitch. Before writing The Black Prince and The Bell, she began her literary career with a novel about the aspiring author Jake Donaghue. For 10 points, name this 20th century British author of The Sea, The Sea and Under the Net.
In one of this author's novels, George McCaffrey sees a flying saucer after attempting to drown his former professor John Robert Rozanov.
Dame Iris Murdoch