Press Reviews

• Maureen Freely

  Observer

  Willa Cather could not have hoped for a more passionately sensible and insightful interpreter . . . Hermione Lee's enthusiasm for this misunderstood writer is contagious and her book is that rare thing, a scholarly study that reads well

• Hilary Mantel

  The biographer's enthusiasm for her subject illuminates every page

• Nicci Gerrard

  New Statesman

  A sympathetic and illuminating study

• Observer

  An affectionate, meticulous study, at once intimate and impersonal

• Literary Review

  The biographer's enthusiasm for her subject illuminates every page. Despite her special place in American letters Willa Cather has never been much read or studied in England, and Hermione Lee . . . must be congratulated for bringing us to her measured, humane, unflinching voice

• Maureen Freely, Observer

  Willa Cather could not have hoped for a more passionately sensible and insightful interpreter . . . Hermione Lee's enthusiasm for this misunderstood writer is contagious and her book is that rare thing, a scholarly study that reads well

• Hilary Mantel

  'The biographer's enthusiasm for her subject illuminates every page

• Nicci Gerrard, New Statesman

  A sympathetic and illuminating study

• OBSERVER

  An affectionate, meticulous study, at once intimate and impersonal