Claire Tomalin has written seven highly acclaimed biographies, and has won a host of prizes. Her Samuel Pepys was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002. Her biography of Charles Dickens, published in 2011, was an international bestseller. A former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, she is married to the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn.
Captivating. . . . An absorbing book about a character who helps to illuminate the life of a great artist and the life of her times. Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i> As social history, literary criticism, and, not least, an absorbing detective story, <i>The Invisible Woman</i> is a wonderful book. <i>Newsday</i> Groundbreaking. <i>The Guardian</i> (UK) This is feminist biography at its best. Leon Edel Part social history, part detective story, wholly enthralling. John Carey, <i>The Sunday Times</i> (London)