reviews

"At last a book with something new - and surprising - to say about Lewis Carroll. A great many Alice fans will hate it because it debunks her, as well as Lewis Carroll, as largely fictitious icons of the pious, sentimental literature of childhood innocence..."

Peter Lewis, The Daily Mail

"...After Karoline Leach's book Carroll studies can never be quite the same again...it should certainly be read by anyone concerned with Dodgson's life and work..."

The Lewis Carroll Review

"...Now we have the whole truth with an intelligent advocate. Karoline Leach’s achievement is considerable and it cannot be ignored. "

Geoffrey Heptonstall, The Contemporary Review

"...Leach's book is less straight biography, than a sort of biographical detective story...even if the verdict is sometimes no more than 'not proven', the investigation is well worth the scholarly struggles involved. We are nearer now than before, I think, to the man who wrote Alice"

David Mckie, The Guardian

"It is clear that he was neither saint nor pervert. I welcome this work of re-assessment, though it is by no means a whitewash, and I believe that many lovers of Carroll will be similarly relieved.

Patrick Skene Catling, The Spectator

REVIEWS OF THE HARDBACK EDITION

"At last a book with something new - and surprising - to say about Lewis Carroll. A great many Alice fans will hate it because it debunks her, as well as Lewis Carroll, as largely fictitious icons of the pious, sentimental literature of childhood innocence..."

Peter Lewis, The Daily Mail

"...After Karoline Leach's book Carroll studies can never be quite the same again...it should certainly be read by anyone concerned with Dodgson's life and work..."

The Lewis Carroll Review

"...Now we have the whole truth with an intelligent advocate. Karoline Leach’s achievement is considerable and it cannot be ignored. "

Geoffrey Heptonstall, The Contemporary Review

"...Leach's book is less straight biography, than a sort of biographical detective story...even if the verdict is sometimes no more than 'not proven', the investigation is well worth the scholarly struggles involved. We are nearer now than before, I think, to the man who wrote Alice"

David Mckie, The Guardian

"It is clear that he was neither saint nor pervert. I welcome this work of re-assessment, though it is by no means a whitewash, and I believe that many lovers of Carroll will be similarly relieved.

Patrick Skene Catling, The Spectator