Glendinning succeeds, as no biographer has done before, in bringing him to life on the page-Here, at last, is an Anthony Trollope whom one can know as a man-The effect is startlingly impressive.
- Jonathan Raban,, Independent on Sunday
'Enormously enjoyable'
- John Mortimer, Books of the Year, Sunday Times
Full of fascinating knowledge about the Victorian age in England-A great story superbly told.'
- Augustine Martin,, Irish Times
As compelling readable as any of Anthony's own novels.'
- Ruth Rendell,, Sunday Express
I came to this biography of Trollope with unreasonably high expectations. They were amply fulfilled-A work as readable, richly shifting and well-shaped as a good novel-compendiously well-informed.'
- Caroline Moore,, The Times
A brilliant and subtle interweaving of the man and the work; wonderful.'
- Joanna Trollope, Books of the Year,, Daily Telegraph