Samuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author
Claire Tomalin 2002 WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Immaculately well
done. Tomalin has managed to unearth a wealth of material about the
uncharted life of Samuel Pepys' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'Sex,
drink, plague, fire, music, marital conflict, the fall of kings,
corruption and courage in public life, wars, navies, public
execution, incarceration in the Tower: Samuel Pepys's life is full
of irresistible material, and Claire Tomalin seizes it with both
hands. Fast, vivid, accessible' Hermione Lee, Guardian 'A rich,
thoughtful and deeply satisfying account. It takes us behind and
beyond the diary - which means that, on finishing it, we can reread
the diary with greater pleasure and understanding then ever before'
Noel Malcolm, Evening Standard 'In Claire Tomalin, Pepys has found
the biographer he deserves. Her perceptive, level-headed book
finally restores to the life of the diarist its weight and dignity'
Lisa Jardine, New Statesman 'A great achievement and a huge
pleasure. A vivid chronicle of contemporary history seen through
the all too human preoccupations of this ordinary and extraordinary
man' Diana Souhami, Independent From the acclaimed author of
Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, this celebrated
biography casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Pepys and
brings his story vividly to life once more. Claire Tomalin is the
award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed biographies,
including: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley and
His World; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman:
The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan's
Profession; Jane Austen: A Life; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self;
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man and, most recently, Charles
Dickens: A Life. A former literary editor of the New Statesman and
the Sunday Times, she is married to the playwright and novelist
Michael Frayn.
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