RaveFinancial Times (UK)Feeney... creates real, fiercely believable people, the kind you will never want to forget ... It is a privilege to read such a novel, and it richly deserves its place on this year’s Booker longlist.
Miranda Seymour
RaveThe Financial TimesMiranda Seymour puts everything straight in this magnificent, highly readable double biography, which brings these two driven, complicated women vividly to life ... In Seymour’s hands, Annabella’s pioneering work at last assumes the status it deserves ... This is a very fine book. Written with warmth, panache and conviction, its formidable research is lightly worn. The footnotes alone are a joy.
