Thackeray

A compelling biography... Taylor succeeds always in evoking a rich sense of context...without losing the narrative momentum

Michael Slater, New Statesman

A richly detailed book... Taylor writes with verve and affection and is shrewdly perceptive

John Carey, Sunday Times

An accomplished, responsible, imaginative reconstruction of life, and of a life. Thackeray has come home

Victoria Glendinning, Spectator

He's a gift of a subject to DJ Taylor (a novelist who loves to teem, and teems with brio)

Guardian

Outstanding... On every page there is evidence of a formidable critical and imaginative intelligence at work... A splendid book

Frank McLynn, Evening Standard

Taylor's awareness of the task of biography is just one of the many delights of this fond, yet not overly reverent account.'

Independent on Sunday

Wonderful... An outstanding biography. It is unlikely there will be a better one for years to come

Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday