Passions of the Mind (Selected Writings) Quercus ‘An absolute gulp of a

‘An absolute gulp of a read… it grabs hold and doesn’t let go’ Fíona Scarlett

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and is the first in a powerful trilogy

Amid the bombsites and blood-stained alleys of blacked-out London

Passions of the Mind (Selected Writings) Quercus ‘An absolute gulp of aWhether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her own fiction, Byatt manages to be challenging, entertaining, and unflinchingly committed to the alliance of literature and life.