Iris Murdoch 's Booker Prize-winning novel, dramatised in four parts, with John Wood as Charles and Joyce Redman as Hartley.
2: Tlw Light and Fire of My Life. By the wildest coincidence, Charles has discovered that Hartley, his "first and only true love", is now living in the village. Forty-five years on, love burns more strongly than ever. Is this to be a doomed brief encounter, or absolute happiness at last?