MixedThe Spectator (UK)It is lively and well written, but it’s not the finished product. It lacks access to the private papers of its subject and her wife Elizabeth ... In the meantime, Clements deserves plaudits. He has worked his personal knowledge and existing sources well ... There is nothing particularly revealing, for example, about the family tensions her globe-trotting or transition caused ... Clements sums up his subject, not entirely convincingly, as in continuous flight – from family, country and gender. Whatever the metaphor, Jan Morris’s extraordinary journey is still being retrospectively charted.
