A book of wonder and nonsense laced with lethal wit

Without these two books in my childhood I doubt whether my imagination would have developed at all

A marvellous confidence in the primacy of the imagination

Two nightmare destinations. Wonderland and Looking Glass. The more I read these books, the darker they shine.. Carroll operates on language like a cruel, crazy surgeon

Precise, dream-like, subversive

The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books lies in language. . .. It is play, and word-play, and its endless intriguing puzzles continue to reveal themselves long after we have ceased to be children

Only Lewis Carroll has shown us the world upside down the way a child sees it, and has made us laugh as children laugh

That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with

I'd like to write a play as perfect as Emma

A literary phenomenon on the grandest scale – a work of genius

Sublime and sweet melancholy suffuses the story. Beautiful

A delicate meditation on mortality, decay and the fading of beauty

Historical fiction at its best

No novel is perfect, but this small, wonderfully atmospheric and immensely poignant story...comes very close