James Morrison
Living in Limbo
A Game with Sharpened Knives
By Neil Belton
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 328pp £14.99 order from our bookshop
Paranoia, betrayal, and the pursuit of scientific and emotional ‘truths’ are themes at the heart of this densely woven debut novel by the award-winning biographer Neil Belton.
A Game with Sharpened Knives is a fictionalised account of the turbulent years spent in wartime exile near Dublin by Erwin Schrödinger, the Austrian physicist who won the 1933 Nobel Prize for his pioneering studies of wave mechanics. As the Irish capital lies decaying in a state of perilous neutrality,
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