Anne Wroe's extraordinary and compelling biography of a very elusive figure.
Ann Wroe is the Obituaries editor of The Economist, and has written its weekly obituary for almost two decades. She is the author of eight previous works of non-fiction, including biographies of Pontius Pilate (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award and the W.H. Smith Award), Perkin Warbeck, Shelley, Orpheus (winner of the Criticos Prize) and St Francis. She lives in Brighton and London.
The touch of a master novelist... Few have ever explored so
imaginatively, or with such passionate attention to detail'
*Sunday Telegraph*
Because so little is known, it is possible to speculate endlessly.
If one's mind is a brilliant engine of speculation like Wroe's,
then one is dazzlingly equipped to do so. Her book is excellent and
discloses an intense imaginative sympathy, a lyricism, and a
fine-tuned psychological perception
*Daily Express*
Wroe is a creative, even a beautiful writer... It is a wonderfully
enjoyable, rich, generous book
*Daily Mail*
Extraordinary and compelling
*Daily Telegraph*
She manages always to keep Pilate living and breathing in the text,
and occasionally kicking and screaming
*Independent on Sunday*
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