A character in one of this author's novels is haunted by an audiotape of an argument he had with his wife three days before her death, and that character invents a therapy patient named Magnus Bowles to allow his neighbour to regularly sneak out to see his mistress. This author who wrote about Blaise Gavender's affair in The Sacred and Profane Love Machine wrote a novel in which the playwright Charles Arrowby attempts to kidnap his first love, Mary Fitch, to try to convince her to elope with him. In another novel by this author, the protagonist searches for his old friend Hugo Belfounder after finding a copy of his own novel, The Silencer, in an apartment he is staying in after being kicked 
A character in one of this author's novels is haunted by an audiotape of an argument he had with his wife three days before her death, and that character invents a therapy patient named Magnus Bowles to allow his neighbour to regularly sneak out to see his mistress. This author who wrote about Blaise Gavender's affair in The Sacred and Profane Love Machine wrote a novel in which the playwright Charles Arrowby attempts to kidnap his first love, Mary Fitch, to try to convince her to elope with him. In another novel by this author, the protagonist searches for his old friend Hugo Belfounder after finding a copy of his own novel, The Silencer, in an apartment he is staying in after being kicked out of Madge's place. For 10 points, name this Irish novelist of The Sea, the Sea and Under the Net.
A character in one of this author's novels is haunted by an audiotape of an argument he had with his wife three days before her death, and that character invents a therapy patient named Magnus Bowles to allow his neighbour to regularly sneak out to see his mistress.
Iris {Murdoch}