The Society of Timid Souls

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