Under The Net The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2012) Because first single-mum Maureen

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Under The Net The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2012) Because first single-mum MaureenIris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures. Jake is captivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose