PositiveThe GuardianWhile detailed enough to lend vividness to the story, Kleinhenz’s treatment avoids what is probably the biggest danger for such biographies: a suffocating and gratuitous examination of the minutiae of the subject’s life. She has written a page-turner, though not by means of cheap sensationalism ... Kleinhenz’s tone is respectful, even affectionate towards the woman who, she writes, \'changed my life and the lives of millions across the world in the middle years of the twentieth century\' ... While Kleinhenz is correct to see Greer’s contribution to second-wave feminism as that of a populariser unafraid to \'challenge the challenger\', we may take issue both with the nature of the challenge and with the version of feminism Greer has popularised. Kleinhenz acknowledges the criticisms and leaves the reader to decide what to make of it all. The Greer that emerges is a complex character whose powers of insight and invention are consistently confounded by her enthusiasm for controversy. Kleinhenz’s achievement is to have produced a sympathetic, thoroughly readable portrayal of an ultimately unsympathetic figure.
