The Story of Alice

It is the ultimate book about Alice - comprehensive and scholarly, but so delightfully and elegantly written that it’s a true work of literature – Jacqueline Wilson
The Story of Alice is the best book on the myriad enigmas of Carroll’s heart-breaking wonderland I have ever read – Robert McCrum * Observer *
Superb…toweringly the best of the dozens of books on Carroll which I have read – AN Wilson * Financial Times *
Douglas-Fairhurst is a startling and exciting writer – A.S. Byatt * Spectator *
This is biography at its best – Lyndall Gordon * New Statesman *
Magnificent – 5 Stars, Charlotte Heathcote * Sunday Express *
Fascinating – Book of the Week, Philip Collins * Times *
This accomplished book provides ample inspiration for readers to return to Wonderland – Francesca Wade * Prospect *
Different times, and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst makes a sure-footed guide in unraveling them…intriguing – Anthony Quinn * Mail on Sunday *
A fascinating telling of a great mystery story * The Times *

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His books include The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He writes regularly for publications including The Times, Guardian, TLS, and Spectator. Radio and television appearances include Start the Week and The Culture Show, and he has also acted as the historical consultant on TV adaptations of Jane Eyre, Emma, and Great Expectations, the BBC drama series Dickensian, and the feature film Enola Holmes. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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