"A hypnotic storyteller who leaves in his wake a trail of curiosity and unease."
-Anita Brookner
"It's the sort of novel that ought to be more common than it is. Full of old-fashioned, raucous pleasure: a real rattler of an entertainment."
-Philip Hensher, "Spectator"
"A big, broad, sweeping book, as disturbing as it is funny."
-"Guardian"
"He grapples with the concerns both of the heart and the intellect and it is grippingly readable."
-"Times Literary Supplement"

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has held a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. The Victorians, Wilson's study of the Victorian age, was published in 2002 to massive critical acclaim. His most recent book, My Name is Legion, was published by Hutchinson in 2004. He lives in North London.