Description: Little did retired professor John Bayley realize when he lost Iris Murdoch, his beloved wife of forty-four years, that life would never be the same again. First came thousands of sympathy notes from lovers of Murdoch's novels and fans of the best-selling Elegy for Iris. But more alarming were the hundreds of calls from seemingly well-meaning women, many of whom literally rang Bayley's doorbell bearing cakes, casserole dishes, and pep talks designed to cheer up the widower of their dreams. With the reassuring, compassionate voice of Iris still a mournful obbligato in the background, Bayley, feeling that love has lost its purpose, must grapple with his fate as a man in his mid-seventies beginning life anew. Melodic, irrepressible, and comically comforting, Widower's House, with its heartwarming and surprisingly romantic ending, will reveal yet a new side of the man who became England's most unlikely symbol of masculine virility.

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