Simon Raven

The dedicatee is Margaret Hubbard , who like Murdoch was one of St Anne's College 's original Fellows when it achieved collegiate status in 1957. The book was adapted for television in 1975 by Simon Raven .

British Book News considered this work as an ambitious historical novel; its laudatory review concentrated on narrative style and plausibility of detail. But many British readers considered it primarily as a parallel...

JD 's publisher, Anthony Blond , felt that the novel's subject, mental alienation, might not be attractive to readers, but his secretary (the firm's only employee at the time) said she would leave unless he...