'A great achievement and a huge pleasure. Her perceptive, level-headed book finally restores to the life of the diarist its weight and dignity' Lisa Jardine, New Statesman 'In Claire Tomalin, Pepys has found the biographer he deserves. 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 'A rich, thoughtful and deeply satisfying account. Fast, vivid, accessible' Hermione Lee, Guardian '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. Tomalin has managed to unearth a wealth of material about the uncharted life of Samuel Pepys' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday Samuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin
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