The research is impeccable, the attention to detail perfect, and it brings the formidable figure of Victoria to sparkling life Sunday Mirror Goodwin demonstrates her admirable ability to fuse wide-ranging knowledge of the period with lively storytelling skills The Sunday Times Meticulously researched and vividly told, it is a perfect winter romp Mail on Sunday Goodwin manages to create suspense, by imagining Victoria's inner life as revealed in her letters and diaries, and doing full justice to the spirit and independence that made her one ofour greatest monarchs The Times Engaging and enthralling My Weekly

Daisy Goodwin's work as a TV producer and presenter includes Reader I Married Him, Bookworm and The Nation's Favourite Poems; she is also the creator of Grand Designs and wrote the script for ITVs Victoria . She has edited numerous poetry anthologies, including the bestselling 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life, and is the author of Silver River, a memoir as well as two novels, My Last Duchess and The Fortune Hunter. Goodwin reviews regularly for the Times and Sunday Times and writes a bibliotherapy column for the Daily Mail.