An excellent copy of the First Australian one volume edition published in the year of her death in Hastings East Sussex.The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is her famous trilogy about slow decline, owing to character flaws and an unnamed brain disease, of a successful Australian physician and businessman and the emotional & financial effect on his family and was inspired by Richardson's own family experiences. The central characters based loosely on her own parents. Iris Murdoch is her second cousin twice removed.