# A Word Child

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- Book: [A Word Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/iris-murdoch/a-word-child) ([A Word Child.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/iris-murdoch/a-word-child.md))
- Authors: [Iris Murdoch](https://www.bookquiver.com/iris-murdoch)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9942-912-8
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2014-03-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition.