The Story Of Alice Av Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

<p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD<br><br>This is the secret history of <i>Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland</i>.<br><br>Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. Charles Dodgson was a quiet academic but his second self, Lewis Carroll, was a storyteller, innovator and avid collector of ‘child-friends’. Carroll’s imagination was to give Alice Liddell, his ''dream-child'', a fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up. <br><br>This is a biography that beautifully unravels the magic of Alice. It is a history of love and loss, innocence and ambiguity. It is the story of one man’s need to make a Wonderland in a changing world.</p>