Iris Murdoch a Writer at War

These never before published writings comprise Iris Murdoch's passionate wartime correspondence with two early intimates: the poet Frank Thompson brother of the historian E.P. Thompson who was killed in 1944 and David Hicks with whom she had a dramatic affair engagement and breakup. It also includes the journal that Murdoch kept as a touring actress during August of 1939. The selection sheds new light on a brilliant young mind (sharp and polished as a sword as Frances Wilson describes it) while painting a vivid picture of life during the Second World War.<br>