This book is about the joint power of circumstance and character: about four people who were in the right place and time—and in the right company—to do unprecedented and transformative things. How did Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch all follow a path that was virtually unmarked? How did they stick together, different as they were? And how did they work their way toward a set of ideas sharply at odds with what nearly everyone around them thought?
