Review of the hardback: 'To say that the final chapters of David Ellis's exemplary biography are overwhelmingly moving is in no way to diminish the good work that has gone before. From the start Ellis combines the need for an exhaustive documentary record with the ability to tell a coherent, compelling story … Ellis's greatest achievement, though, is to give us such a vivid sense of Lawrence at work, of how, on a day-to-day basis, he transmuted his experience into words.' Geoff Dyer, London Evening Standard

Review of the hardback: '… scholarly, reverential, magnificently detailed, anatomising the multitudinous writings against the backdrop of his turbulent, loving, yet adversarial life.' William Scammell, Independent on Sunday

Review of the hardback: 'The great achievement of this third volume lies in the biographer's ability to acknowledge the less attractive aspects of Lawrence's personality while still presenting his essential genius and integrity of the man. Professor Ellis provides the fullest and most perspicacious account of the novelist's last years; his insight is compelling and his narrative arresting. He is particularly good at displaying the gentler and more sympathetic aspects of Lawrence's character, in particular that instinctive gaiety which captivated acquaintances … This third volume of the Cambridge biography also completes a worthy and brave endeavour: D. H. Lawrence will never again be known so completely or so well.' Peter Ackroyd