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Brilliant... A most enjoyable and skilful biography -- A. N. Wilson An accomplished, responsible, imaginative reconstruction of life, and of a life. Thackeray has come home -- Victoria Glendinning Spectator Wonderful... An outstanding biography. It is unlikely there will be a better one for years to come -- Kathryn Hughes Mail on Sunday A compelling biography... Taylor succeeds always in evoking a rich sense of context...without losing the narrative momentum -- Michael Slater New Statesman A richly detailed book... Taylor writes with verve and affection and is shrewdly perceptive -- John Carey Sunday Times

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D.J. Taylor was born in Norwich in 1960. He is a novelist, critic and an acclaimed biographer. His Orwell: The Life won the Whitbread Biography Prize for 2003. His most recent books are Kept: A Victorian Mystery (a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year), On the Corinthian Spirit: The Decline of Amateurism in Sport, Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 and Ask Alice. He is married to the novelist Rachel Hore, has three children and lives in Norwich.

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