"...Leach's book is less straight biography, than a sort of biographical detective story, reminiscent at times, of Humphrey Carpenter's portrait of Robert Runcie. The picture with which she replaces the former confected image is far from definitive. The destruction of essential documents, like the pages ripped from his journal, would alone have seen to that. But 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