‘The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,’ the American author Willa Cather once wrote. Yet for Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence, 1922 began with a frighteningly blank page, but turned out to be a year of outstanding creative renaissance for them all. Full of surprising insights and original research, Goldstein chronicles the lives and works of the four writers.