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 *