Iris Murdoch’s fascination for and envy of the reclusive life manifests itself in both her theological thinking and her novels and, it is argued here, is fundamentally rooted in her intellectual dialogue with the fourteenth-century mystic, Dame Julian of Norwich. Julian’s Revelations of Divine Love was a treasured possession in Murdoch’ personal library, and her annotations to this text provide the structure for the central arguments of this chapter. It begins by exploring personal traits that unite the two women, including both women’s experiences of veridical visions, and then surveys Murdoch’s early intellectual engagement with Julian from the 1940s, when she records in her letters and journals her initial responses to reading Julian. Particular attention is paid to Murdoch’s spiritual connection with Dame Julian and how they share an understanding of Christ as role model and a moral guide despite Murdoch’s avowed agnosticism. Murdoch’s dialogue with Julian is then explored more specifically in the experiences of a series of characters from her novels, and include Catherine Fawley in The Bell (1958), Anne Cavidge in Nuns and Soldiers (1980), Franca Sheerwater in The Message to the Planet (1989) and Bradley Pearson in The Black Prince (1973). Murdoch’s dialogue with Dame Julian can sometimes make for uncomfortable reading as she not only joins Julian in challenging conventional thinking on the nature of sin, suffering and justice but also inspires by means of their shared joyous celebration of the centrality of love to human goodness and well-being that shall make all things well.