Аннотация
Iris Murdoch
An Unofficial Rose
Chapter One
I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
FANNY PERONETT was dead. That much her husband Hugh Peronett was certain of as he stood in the rain beside the grave which was shortly to receive his wife's mortal remains. Further than that, Hugh's certainty did not reach. The promise meant little to him that the priest had uttered. He did not even know what Fanny had believed, let alone anything concerning the possible consequences of her beliefs. After more than forty years of marriage, and although his wife had not been a mysterious woman, he had not really known what was in her heart. He looked across the open grave. The tiny coffin opposite to him, under its pile of sodden roses, was like that of a child. She had shrunk so much in her last illness.
Fanny had had few friends. Yet the gathering at the graveside, under its receding rows of bl...
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