A marvelous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation. - Tom Hanks

Simply, a masterpiece. Here, Anna Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full. -- Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Truly wonderful... Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait. -- Claire Tomalin

Electrifying... Daring in both form and content, Funder's book is a nuanced, sophisticated literary achievement - Kirkus

A strikingly original study that casts Orwell in new light. Deeply perceptive, it is testament to forgotten wives of famous men everywhere. - Julia Boyd

Furious and fascinating - The Times

Taylor's updated life will send readers back to Orwell's compelling visions of state power and surveillance with fresh appreciation. Still, it is Funder's evocation of Eileen's fugitive life that haunts this reader's imagination. It is a spellbinding achievement - FT

An utter triumph, and nothing short of a miracle - Anne Summers

Wonderful, unexpected and exciting from beginning to end - Antonia Fraser

Astounding... A profoundly essential, significant and groundbreaking work... a work of love for both Eric and Eileen - Bernadette Brennan

An extraordinary blend of forensic historical detective work and evocative fiction, as well as snatches of memoir. It not only writes O'Shaughnessy back into the story but also questions how far we've really come in terms of gender equality. To read about O'Shaughnessy is to fall in love with her - Radio Times

Reminiscent of Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts or Julian Barnes's The Noise of Time . . . a riveting biography that not only rediscovers Eileen and paints a picture of a volatile period of history but also poses questions about what we value in art. - Books & Publishing

A brilliant hybrid of biography, memoir and literary detective work, which demonstrates how patriarchy allows men to exploit women's unpaid services. Funder brings Eileen to life through her letters, supported by forensic re-reading of male-authored biographies and Orwell's classics about tyranny and truth. -- Sarah Wyndham - Guardian

Full of keen psychological insight and eloquent prose, WIFEDOM shines - Publishers Weekly

Wifedom is both an immovable and an irresistible book, an object and a force . . . another great and important narrative of oppression and covert suppression. -- Michael Hofman - Australian Book Review

It's hard to think of many other contemporary writers with such an acute eye for writing into the absences in the historical record. -- Michael Williams - Saturday Paper

George Orwell's first wife emerges vividly from Anna Funder's new book . . . welcome and necessary, returning life to a woman who was gifted, vivid, complex and highly intelligent, who gave up her own ambitions in the furtherance of her husband's -- Geordie Williamson - Weekend Australian

Funder is the perfect writer to integrate Orwell's legacy. She, too, has devoted her writing life to the subject of surviving tyranny. - The Conversation

'Anna Funder is a premier-league writer who can roll fiction, reportage, criticism and memoir into glinting prose, her sentences like handheld treasures you keep turning over, admiring for their graceful contours and crafted precision' - i Newspaper

Audaciously brilliant - Independent

A genre-bending tour de force... After Funder, we will never look at this writer or his work in the same way again. Nor should we. - Independent

Electrifying... a genre-melding hybrid that allows Eileen's likeness to be partially recovered through her own words and the testimonies of those who remembered her, as well as reimagined in fictional passages to flesh out the gaps in the record... Wifedom is a vital portrait of a woman whose unseen work was instrumental in the creation of books that became cornerstones of 20th century literature, the extent of her contribution impossible to measure, obscured as it is by the role of "wife" - Observer

In this rattlingly fierce book, Anna Funder sets out to unmask the "wicked magic trick" by which Eileen O'Shaughnessy Blair has been made to disappear... readers will be simply thrilled - and shaken - by this passionately partisan act of literary reparation - Sunday Times

Astonishing... Wifedom is no less than the rescue of a remarkable woman from the deliberate ellipses of default male history. -- Caroline Criado-Perez, bestselling author of INVISIBLE WOMEN

Wonderful, unexpected and exciting from beginning to end. -- Antonia Fraser