Letters from Iceland Mothers Day and a life on a

and a life on a remote Hebridean island

she swims in the ocean's cold embrace

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

told from the inside

Embattled by friends and enemies alike

Letters from Iceland Mothers Day and a life on aIn 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