"A triumph. . . . Any admirer of Penelope Fitzgerald's work--or, for that matter, any passionate reader--will enjoy this capacious, masterly biography." --The Washington Post
"Excellent. . . . Riveting. . . . Will send you racing back to read the subject's works." --The New York Times "[A] superbly intelligent biography. . . . Remarkable. . . . A revelation." --The New Yorker "A championing critical biography. . . . Richly illuminating. . . . It is, very movingly, a picture of a whole past life . . . with a reverence for her subject that is felt on every page." --The New York Review of Books "Rarely has a literary biography been more needed or necessary than in Fitzgerald's case. . . . She was a writer of genius. . . . [Lee's] research is meticulous. . . . Her conclusion is a statement of biographical honesty." --The Wall Street Journal "The life and times of that elusive, original miracle worker, the English novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, have been brilliantly captured by Lee. . . . [Fitzgerald's] fiction, when it finally emerged, had a tamped-down force and intense compression, as if the decades-long wait had worked its own clarifying, crystallizing magic." --The New York Times Book ReviewONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW’ S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography
Penelope Fitzgerald, one of the most quietly brilliant novelists of the twentieth century, was a great English writer whose career didn’t begin until she was nearly sixty. Her life was marked by dramatic twists of fate, moving from a bishop’s palace to a sinking houseboat to a last, late blaze of renown. Her exquisite novels—short, spare masterpieces—would go on to win some of the most coveted awards in literature: the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, in an impeccable match of talent between biographer and subject, Hermione Lee gives us this remarkable writer’s story.
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