Didactylos reviewed Charles Dickens : A Life by Claire Tomalin
Enjoyed it much less than her Hardy biography
3 stars
I wanted to read this having enjoyed her Hardy. I hoped to get similar insights. I ended up being educated on the life and times but really little further aware of the man. A mix of a parade of names of people, précis of the novels and this a very long book that left me exasperated. Maybe not her fault as Dickens does seem to have very deliberately hidden much of himself.