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The Bell

AuthorIris Murdoch

NarratorMiriam Margolyes

Duration12h 40m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels, LGBTQ+ Literature

Key StageA Level

PublisherChivers

VersionUnabridged

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A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. As the new bell is installed, the old bell - legendary symbol of religion and magic - is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Meade, leader of the community, is confronted by a man with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved

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