Charles Dickens: A Life - Claire Tomalin

CLAIRE TOMALIN worked in publishing and journalism for many years. She was literary editor first of the New Statesman and then the Sunday Times , before devoting herself to writing full time. She is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies including Thomas Hardy , The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens , and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self , which was the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year. She lives in England with her husband, Michael Frayn.