Catherine The Great

A great thumping triumph of a book. * Daily Telegraph *
Enjoyable and perceptive study … Rounding has read widely, and writes punctilious, professional history with a no-nonsense style and a respectful relish for the details that make the past come alive. – Simon Sebag Montefiore * Sunday Telegraph *
Rounding writes with enviable lucidity, and gives us the most accessible and enjoyable portrait yet. * Daily Mail *
Written with vigour and intelligence enough to do justice to its prodigious subject. * Sunday Times *
Rounding shows that … the reality is far more interesting than any of the fictions. * Scotland on Sunday *
For a sense of Catherine’s intimate life, sexual appetites, preoccupations, ruthlessness, intellectual scope, sentimentality and dedication, this is a great piece of work. * FT Magazine *
Rounding’s respectful take is highly appropriate … Through her eyes, we see a woman committed to Enlightenment values … Catherine was both a highly sexual woman and an intellectual; there is nothing anyone need add to her story. It is all there. * Scotsman *
Densely detailed and always absorbing. * Western Daily Press *

Virginia Rounding is the author of Les Grandes Horizontales (2003), is fluent in French and Russian (vital for the source material of her new book). She lives in London (EC1).

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