A Novel of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell.
'It is no longer desirable for you to spend time . . .'
For seven years Charles Dodgson, a painfully shy Oxford don, and Alice Liddell, the fascinating little girl who was the daughter of the dean of Christ Church, had a strange, intense relationship. Then suddenly, when she was eleven, Alice's family shut Dodgson out.
The pages from Dodgson's diary that may have explained the rift have disappeared. What remains are the stories he told her, transformed into the brilliant, revolutionary classics, 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Through The Looking Glass', and the pioneering photographs in which he captured her fleeting childhood.
In a triumphant work of imagination, Katie Roiphe illuminates a luxuriously textured corner of Victorian society, with its affluence, its social power-plays and its politics, and the mysterious, difficult relationship Dodgson had with Alice, her family - and with himself.
A portrait of a man driven by an obsessive love, so powerful and restrained it led to the creation of one of the most original works of our time, 'Still She Haunts Me' is an unforgettable novel about a singular, troubled man, from one of the twenty-first century's most provocative young writers.
