Her last novel, Jackson's Dilemma, was published in 1995. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the equivalent of a knighthood for women. Her 1978 work, The Sea, The Sea about a retired film director trying to win back his first love, won the Booker Prize, widely considered Britain's highest literary honor. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. One of her most admired novels was 1973's The Black Prince about a middle-aged would-be writer and his professional rival's young daughter. I don't start writing the thing until I've got the whole of it absolutely." "I invent the whole thing before I start writing," she once explained, "even the conversations are in my head. While several of her later novels are set in London often in upper-middle-class homes in West Brompton only in Under the Net is the city an essential part of the story. It is also by far the most London of her novels. Murdoch's first published novel was Under the Net in 1954, and it won immediate praise. Iris Murdoch: Under the Net (1954) John Wilson Iris Murdoch Under the Net is Iris Murdoch’s first novel. They later moved to a vine-covered house in north Oxford. In 1956, she married Bayley, and for many years the couple kept a famously chaotic household in the village of Steeple Ashton, 100 miles west of London.
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