Ours is an increasingly risk-averse society. It has become a conversation point to wax nostalgic about the days when children walked unaccompanied to school and played marbles in the street. I, myself, aged not quite five, was put on a train, with a label in my buttonhole, and sent from London to Liverpool to visit my grandparents with no adult supervision beyond the guard. And – surprise, surprise – psychologists report that the result of this nannying is to produce a society of anxious, unconfident adults with wobbly self-esteem and a dangerous inability to trust their own judgments.
Polly Morland’s brisk and thought-inducing book takes a forensic look at nine examples of modern risk, and on the way delivers acute and entertaining insights. As with her previous book, The Society of Timid Souls, her range of examples is wide.
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