Mr and Mrs Disraeli

Thorough and engaging... A warm and rounded portrait

Daily Telegraph

Much colour and entertainment

Leslie Mitchell, Literary Review

All marriages have their mysteries, political marriages more than most. The marriage of Mr and Mrs Disraeli was stranger than fiction, but every bit as compelling

Robert McCrum, The Observer

A beguiling account of a very unusual marriage

Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times

A tour de force, written with intelligence and compassion

The Times

One to watch in 2015

Independent

One to watch in 2015

Rachel Cooke, The Observer

A fabulous book, as if Jane Austen were writing for a modern newspaper... Full of wonderfully observed detail... A great story of life and loves in a time when making the right marriage really mattered

Independent

It is a great story of life and loves in a time when making the right marriage really mattered

John Rentoul, Independent

A beguiling account of a very unusual marriage

Sunday Times

Above all, the Disraelis’ is a love story, and it is this unusual but most human of tales that gives this book its raison d’être

Tim Bouverie, Weekly Telegraph

What Hay does is ask us to think more subtly about a marriage that, no matter how peculiar to onlookers, facilitated one of the greatest parliamentary careers of modern times

Kathryn Hughes, 4 stars, Mail on Sunday

As with all the best biographers, Hay makes her readers drag their feet towards the end, reluctant to part company with people she has made us know and feel for. Her book has turned the Disraelis’ uneven romance into a real love story. How pleased they would have been

Guardian

[An] excellent book

Good Book Guide

Intriguing

Mail on Sunday

Daisy hay paints a picture of a strange yet real romance between Bejamin and Mary Anne Disraeli

Katie Lazell, Public Service Magazine

Reminds us, yet again, how much more complex and intriguing the Victorians were than we might think

Robert McCrum, Observer

Hay brings alive an unusual marriage with skill and imagination.

Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times

The story is well known, but Hay’s lively retelling only makes you want to applaud again the two clever commoners who outplayed the ruling elite and changed the course of British history.

Marcus Field

This detailed and wonderful book shows how the couple defined one another and paints a fascinating picture of a loving and supportive partnership.

Julia Richardson, Daily Mail

Daisy Hay’s dual biography offers a vivid portrait of a marriage that confounded their friends but proved to be happy and enduring.

Paula Byrne, The Times

Touching story, which [Hay] tells with an exhilarating combination of pace and erudition… A real love story.

Rosemary Hill, Guardian