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Dickens wrote it in six weeks, amid explosions of laughter and tears at his desk
Joshua Young
Lesley McDowell restores Lord Byron’s young lover and Mary Shelley’s step-sister to thrilling, palpitating life
Suzi Feay
With A Wilder Shore, Camille Peri convincingly argues that there was nothing remotely ordinary about either of these people
Scott Bradfield
Telling the lives of women is challenging, owing to the scarcity of information available
Helen Carr
Book Review
Narratives, counter-narratives, twists and frenzied bouts of cleaning up the timeline ensue