‘A fascinating story, beautifully constructed and told with grace, great sympathy and skill. By a rare dramatic gift, Mr Birkin makes the past live around the characters. The numerous illustrations appear next to the text which refers to them, a text which uses their haunting qualities to extraordinary effect.’ – Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph

‘One of the most deeply moving stories I have ever read.’

– Fern Long, San Francisco Examiner

‘The book that Mr Birkin has written is as lucid and gripping as his award-winning television trilogy, The Lost Boys.’ – John Leonard, New York Times

‘Having created one of television's masterpieces, The Lost Boys, Andrew Birkin follows it up, not with the now customary book of the programme, but with its documentation set out in another form but with an equally compelling artistry … It is indicative of the author's creative use of restraint that this astonishing history justifies his claim of ‘love story’ from beginning to end. It is a lesson in revelations.’ – Ronald Blythe, The Listener

‘A work so rich in incident and character, and ultimately almost unbearably poignant.’

– Richard Dyer, Boston Globe

‘Birkin's brilliant and shattering biography … one of the year's most engrossing biographies.’ – Joseph Kestner, Tulsa World

‘Immensely gripping and satisfying … one of the most poignant stories I have read for a long time.’ Nicholas Tucker, – BBC Kaleidoscope

‘This book is not to be dismissed as a spin-off from the television. Birkin has drawn in his portrait of Barrie surely one of the most extraordinary human beings that ever walked the earth …’ – Haro Hobson, Daily Mail

‘This tender yet tragic story … has never been so fully or compellingly presented as in this handsomely produced, engrossing study.’ – Edward Griffin, Choice Magazine

‘Absolutely delightful … the rich yet restrained narrative coupled with the entrancing photographs make this book a wholly memorable experience.’

– Millicent Braverman, KFAC Radio

‘Birkin, a superb writer, has made a fascinating book – tender, compulsive, passionate … an astonishing and poignantly disturbing biography.’

– Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain Dealer

‘The most candid and perceptive biography to have been written on Barrie.’

– The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature

‘This startling biography … daring and entertaining … so overwhelming that it forces us to view Peter Pan in an altogether new light.’

– Andrea Darvi, Los Angeles Herald Examiner