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PRAISE FOR MATTHEW DENNISON: '[Matthew Dennison] skilfully covers the facts, producing a vivid impression of this strange, shy, awkward figure. The result is a highly readable book' Literary Review, on Eternal Boy. 'Fascinating ... Dennison's clever, searching account of her life shows the incredible fight she had to make herself into the kind of woman she wanted to be' The Times, on Over the Hills and Far Away. 'In this finely written book, Dennison has dug deep into the complex truths that underpin Kenneth Grahame' Sunday Times, on Eternal Boy. 'Finely written and dancingly quick' TLS, on Over the Hills and Far Away. 'Dennison writes with atmospheric detail' * Herald, on Eternal Boy *

Devotes a large chunk of his book to Dahl's Norwegian family and schooldays; their combination of warmth, tragedy, inspiration and savagery is brilliantly evoked... [His account] makes you feel grudging admiration for a bully whose self-belief was, in a way, heroic * Sunday Times * Superb psychological study of a literary genius... Matthew Dennison's biography of Roald Dahl manages to peel back the layers of an infamously complex man * Sunday Business Post * Matthew Dennison's streamlined text clips along with an economy befitting Dahl's brusque manner... Dennison presents a rounded picture [...] and gets to Dahl's flawed, human core * Country Life * A well-researched, compact book * Observer * This book is riveting, and immaculately written * Sunday Telegraph * Brace yourself for Dahl mania... Documenting the multi-layered life of Roald Dahl as a creative maverick who created some of the most well-loved characters in literature, this biography reevaluates Dahl by examining his surviving relics * Tatler * A crisply done and well-judged survey of the outline of the life * TLS * [An] impeccably balanced new biography * Mail on Sunday * An intriguing read about a vastly talented but morally weak man * The Anglo-Celt * Dennison recasts the narrative of the daredevil pilot and spy-turned-author as a rule-breaker, romantic and ultimately a child's friend * School House * An elegant new biography... capturing [Dahl’s] grandiose, tragedy-specked life. * The New York Times *

'Brace yourself for Dahl mania... Documenting the multi-layered life of Roald Dahl as a creative maverick who created some of the most well-loved characters in literature, this biography reevaluates Dahl by examining his surviving relics' * Tatler * PRAISE FOR MATTHEW DENNISON: '[Matthew Dennison] skilfully covers the facts, producing a vivid impression of this strange, shy, awkward figure. The result is a highly readable book' Literary Review, on Eternal Boy. 'Fascinating... Dennison's clever, searching account of her life shows the incredible fight she had to make herself into the kind of woman she wanted to be' The Times, on Over the Hills and Far Away. 'In this finely written book, Dennison has dug deep into the complex truths that underpin Kenneth Grahame' Sunday Times, on Eternal Boy. 'Finely written and dancingly quick' TLS, on Over the Hills and Far Away. 'Dennison writes with atmospheric detail' * Herald, on Eternal Boy *

Brace yourself for Dahl mania... Documenting the multi-layered life of Roald Dahl as a creative maverick who created some of the most well-loved characters in literature, this biography reevaluates Dahl by examining his surviving relics * Tatler * This book is riveting, and immaculately written * Sunday Telegraph * PRAISE FOR MATTHEW DENNISON: '[Matthew Dennison] skilfully covers the facts, producing a vivid impression of this strange, shy, awkward figure. The result is a highly readable book' Literary Review, on Eternal Boy. 'Fascinating... Dennison's clever, searching account of her life shows the incredible fight she had to make herself into the kind of woman she wanted to be' The Times, on Over the Hills and Far Away. 'In this finely written book, Dennison has dug deep into the complex truths that underpin Kenneth Grahame' Sunday Times, on Eternal Boy. 'Finely written and dancingly quick' TLS, on Over the Hills and Far Away. 'Dennison writes with atmospheric detail' * Herald, on Eternal Boy *

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Matthew Dennison is the author of nine critically acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West, a Book of the Year in The Times, Spectator, Independent and Observer, and the much-praised Eternal Boy, a life of Kenneth Grahame, and his biography of Her Late Majesty The Queen, published by Head of Zeus.

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