Confessions

When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson ... * Stephen Fry * A. N. Wilson is the most enjoyably readable writer I know. * Antonia Fraser * A. N. Wilson is the supreme man of letters. He has conquered every field: journalism, novels, biography, history - and now memoir. He is planet-brained and very funny - a vanishingly rare combination. * Harry Mount * I am stunned, as I always am, by Wilson's humanity and brilliance and hard honesty. * Deirdre McCloskey * Distinguished literary figure A. N. Wilson's exquisite memoir tells the story of the wife he fell for as a student then betrayed - and the lifetime of lust and longing that led to a deeply poignant ending. * Daily Mail * A. N. Wilson has written many brilliant biographies and novels but never a memoir - until now. It was worth the wait. So exhilarating. And definitely not a failed promise. * Telegraph * Wilson is a torrentially readable autobiographer, capable of howlingly funny paragraphs, desperately sad scenes, gay slapstick, literary analysis and gossipy name-dropping in the same chapter. * John Walsh, Sunday Times * ...an arresting, honest, memorable book, never naive or sloppy , tender and forgiving towards those who have hurt Wilson, contemptuous and merciless about his own cowardice, vanity and failings. * Literary Review * Descriptions of life as a theological student have the mischievous, observant wit of an accomplished humourist. * The Spectator * ...in this fascinating, searingly honest memoir [Wilson] tells more of his own life story. * Jacqueline Wilson, bestselling children's author * Deliciously delicate barbs are scattered throughout the pages. * The Tablet * A. N. Wilson is the greatest living man of letters...He is proficient equally as a biographer, novelist, historian, essayist, editor and literary journalist. His every utterance is well worth pondering... * The Oldie * Scholarly, prolific and compulsively readable ... it is impossible to resist Wilson's storytelling... From its very first pages, Confessions promises to be terrifically entertaining, and it doesn't fail in the slightest. * The Washington Post * A. N. Wilson is nothing short of a genius, a searing journalist, a prolific biographer, a historian and a novelist. There will be no finer book this year. * Rory Knight Bruce, The Field * All these accounts are fascinating, rendered with both melancholy and self-deprecating humor... * Booklist * Confessions reveals a dexterous storyteller... Mr. Wilson himself turned to writing, writing, writing-as if his earnest output might one day assuage the wistful sense with which I began to write this book, that I have never been completely sure who A.N. Wilson was. We aren't sure, either, but it has been an interesting ride. * Wall Street Journal * Wilson's yarn has much to recommend... A readable, often entertaining summation of a life of hard work and second thoughts. * Kirkus Reviews * ...a poignant saga ...laugh out loud, hilarious... a compelling read.. replete with acerbic humor. * City Book Review * Wilson knows how to tell a good story ... Wilson captures a world that is smaller than today but also full of possibilities too soon passed. This may not be a confession, but it is a lament, and rightly so. * The Washington Examiner *