Hart believed in three major destructive powers: erotic obsession, grief and envy. In her six novels, she anatomized each with an unflinching boldness that was, and remains, unparalleled. Certainly, she had literary influences, particularly Irish writers like her friend Iris Murdoch, Beckett, Joyce, and her beloved Yeats. But as a contemporary novelist, Josephine Hart was peerless.
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