Letters from Iceland Mothers Day Embattled by friends and enemies

Embattled by friends and enemies alike

told from the inside

the book casts Novak as an agitator and freedom fighter - but

vivid and arresting' The Times One summer evening in 2009

Publishing in the shadow of the most significant election since the Tories came to power in 2010

Letters from Iceland Mothers Day Embattled by friends and enemiesIn the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concerns on a scale that were far more international. 'Though writing in a "holiday" spirit,' commented Auden, 'its authors were all the time conscious of a threatening horizon to their picnic world wide unemployment, Hitler growing everyday more powerful and a world war more inevitable.' The result is the