When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson …

Stephen Fry

A. N. Wilson is the most enjoyably readable writer I know.

Antonia Fraser

A. N. Wilson is the supreme man of letters. He has conquered every field: journalism, novels, biography, history – and now memoir. He is planet-brained and very funny – a vanishingly rare combination.

Harry Mount

I am stunned, as I always am, by Wilson's humanity and brilliance and hard honesty.

Deirdre McCloskey

Distinguished literary figure A. N. Wilson's exquisite memoir tells the story of the wife he fell for as a student then betrayed - and the lifetime of lust and longing that led to a deeply poignant ending.

Daily Mail

A. N. Wilson has written many brilliant biographies and novels but never a memoir - until now. It was worth the wait. So exhilarating. And definitely not a failed promise.

Telegraph