Terence Blacker

Praise for You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This

A startling and brilliant biography that reads like a Rake's Progress for the 21st century

Daily Mail

Once in a blue moon comes a biography that has the texture of life-as-it-is-lived, the usual province of fiction... With stealth and sympathy, the biographer has followed his subject's footsteps into all sorts of st ...

Craig Brown, Daily Telegraph

Superb... it would be a brilliant picaresque novel, if it were not all true

Independent on Sunday

A startling and brilliant biography that reads like a Rake's Progress for the 21st century

Daily Mail

Once in a blue moon comes a biography that has the texture of life-as-it-is-lived, the usual province of fiction... With stealth and sympathy, the biographer has followed his subject's footsteps into all sorts of st ...

Craig Brown, Daily Telegraph

Superb... it would be a brilliant picaresque novel, if it were not all true

Independent on Sunday

A startling and brilliant biography that reads like a Rake's Progress for the 21st century

Daily Mail

Once in a blue moon comes a biography that has the texture of life-as-it-is-lived, the usual province of fiction... With stealth and sympathy, the biographer has followed his subject's footsteps into all sorts of st ...

Craig Brown, Daily Telegraph

Superb... it would be a brilliant picaresque novel, if it were not all true

Independent on Sunday