Books like Le dilemme de Jackson by Iris Murdoch

Alice Walker's 1982 novel, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, exploring the lives of black women in the South and their experiences of abuse and struggle for independence.

A novel about Emma Woodhouse, a young woman's struggles with matchmaking, misplaced pride, and the dangers of meddling in others' lives in 18th-century England.

In 1935 England, a young woman’s allegation of a crime sets off a chain of events that devastates families, alters lives during the Second World War, and echoes into a later life of remorse and reflection.

Set in the 1830s Midlands, George Eliot’s Middlemarch intertwines village life, politics, and the struggles of its characters to explore social reform, gender roles, and community hypocrisy.

A Victorian love drama that examines gender, sexuality, and the shifting social roles of women in 19th‑century England.

Seventeenth‑year‑old Novalee Nation, seven months pregnant, is stranded in a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with barely $7.77. A quirky, caring community—including Sister Thelma Husband and librarian Forney Hull—offers her unexpected support and a chance for hope.

George Hall, a 61‑year‑old man content with a quiet retirement, is challenged when his daughter announces an unsuitable remarriage, forcing the family to confront love, loyalty and hidden tensions as George’s health deteriorates.

A charismatic teacher at Edinburgh’s Marcia Blaine School in the years before World War II shapes the lives of six chosen girls, leaving an indelible mix of inspiration and manipulation that echoes into their adulthood.

Set in early 1870s England, the novel follows a pious, working‑class kitchen maid who, after a seduction and abandonment, becomes a single mother and defies Victorian expectations.

Een man lijdt onder schuldgevoelens over het overlijden van een vriend; zijn fanaticus stiefbroer probeert hem te beteren op zijn gedachten.

Set in 1960s East Anglia, a disaffected boarding‑school boy becomes obsessed with a lone, seaside neighbor, weaving a tale of friendship, isolation and coming of age.

A captivating novel of sisterhood and forbidden love, Sister of My Heart explores the intricate bond between two sisters from vastly different backgrounds in San Francisco and India.

A diverse community gathers outside Imber Abbey, where an ancient bell symbolizes religion and mystery, drawing questions of faith, love, and forgiveness into the lives of its members.

Paula Spencer, once a widowed, struggling house‑cleaner, has turned sobriety and a new lease on life for her family. Eight years after her return to Dublin, she juggles her job, grandchildren, and the challenges of a changing social world.

A tale of old friends reunited and old jealousies rekindled, Jane Green's Bookends is a story about friendship and love.

A novel that explores the tension between desire and reality

"Iris Murdoch's life - like her books - was full of extraordinary passions and profound relationships with some of the most inspiring and influential thinkers, artists, writers and poets of her time. During the war she pondered Aldous Huxley's doctrine that, for a writer, 'it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters,' and she later wrote that the person who might help her better herself 'must not distinguish between me and my work'. She was sometimes portrayed as a bourgeois grandee living an unworldly, detached intellectual life, inventing a fantastical alternative world for compensation; but much that was thought to be romance in her work turns out to be reality. 'Real life is so much odder than any book,' she wrote to a friend, and her life was as exciting and improbable as her fiction. Her novels are not just stylised comedies of manners with artificial complications, but reflect passionately lived experience, albeit wonderfully transmuted. Peter Conradi's biography returns the reader to her best work, through a quest for the living flesh-and-blood creature: the Irishwoman, the Communist-bohemian, the Treasury civil servant, the worker in Austrian refugee-camps, the RCA lecturer during the 1960s, the lifelong devotee of friendship conducted at a distancce and by letter, and the Buddhist-Christian mystic. It balances the formative years before the creative confusion of youth gave way to a greater stability, with an account of her maturity."--BOOK JACKET.

In 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly survives an assassination attempt. Decades later, a British professor seeks the hidden film and papers left by conspirator Axel von Gottberg and his friend, uncovering themes of friendship, betrayal, and the enduring quest for truth.

A Fairly Honourable Defeat follows the Foster couple as they prepare for a second‑decade anniversary while confronting moral questions about love, ageing, and society.