The Society of Timid Souls: or, How To Be Brave

A journey into the modern life of an ancient virtue ­– bravery – and a quest to understand who might possess it and how

With The Society of Timid Souls, or How To Be Brave, documentary filmmaker Polly Morland sets out to investigate bravery, a quality that she has always felt she lacked. The book takes inspiration from a vividly eccentric, and radical, self-help group for stage-frightened performers in 1940s Manhattan, which coincided with the terrifying height of World War II and was calle...