Hibberd's biography is particularly effective in communicating a sense of its subject's shy charm.
RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH
[Hibberd's] new biography is full of reliable information, intelligent judgments, and pleasingly transparent writing.
BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE
Owen deserved--but has so far lacked--a definitive biography. Now it is indisputably here.
Choice
This is literary biography of the first order, splendidly written and thoroughly documented.
SUNDAY TIMES
This rich, compelling, formidably researched enterprise...is the fruit of half a lifetime's devotion to Owen's memory.
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Hibberd has probably done more than any other individual to illuminate Owen's life and work...a triumph.... It is difficult to believe it will ever be superseded.