He tells a story like an angel... Wonderful Observer A deeply satisfying book. I feel quite exceptionally inclined to read it all over again -- Rosemary Stoyle Literary Review Shakespeare has completed a richly detailed, remarkably complete imaginary world The Times His lyricism is all his own and he raises his lovers to a plateau of passion where Greene never ventured Sunday Telegraph Wavery's story has a lyric simplicity and an emotional subtlety that are moving, involving and beautifully observed Independent