# The Time Of The Angels

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- Book: [The Time Of The Angels](https://www.bookquiver.com/iris-murdoch/the-time-of-the-angels) ([The Time Of The Angels.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/iris-murdoch/the-time-of-the-angels.md))
- Authors: [Iris Murdoch](https://www.bookquiver.com/iris-murdoch)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9942-909-8
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2014-03-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Carel is widowed rector presiding over a London church destroyed during the war. The rectory is home to an array of residents: his daughter, Muriel; his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth; their West Indian servant, Pattie; Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son, Leo. Carel's brother, Marcus, is co-guardian of Elizabeth, but his attempts to get closer to the rector are constantly rebuffed. These seven characters maintain a constant dance of attraction and repulsion, misunderstanding and revelation, the centre of which is the enigmatic Carel himself - a priest who believes that, God being dead, His angels have been released.