Alan Turing's colleagues were famously sceptical concerning his apparent lack of effort. William Golding's friends appear to have been equally in the dark.
For William's daughter Judy, the true extent of her father’s brilliance was something she discovered gradually. She wasn’t remotely aware of his greatness...until she began noticing the way in which the writers, artists and intellectuals who frequented their home treated him: that blend of deference and admiration sparking a realization that his work was something extraordinary.
This Lord of the Flies t-shirt pays tribute to both that moment of recognition and to Golding's genius. His unsettling tale has cemented a place in literary history, and his daughter’s growing awareness of this mirrors the journey many of us take: from first being forced to read this boring book at school to realizing its chilling brilliance in later life.