So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald

'The most illuminating, most moving collection of letters that I have ever read. The writing glows with love, wit and intellectual passion'

Financial Times

Acclaimed for her exquisitely elegant novels - including the Booker Prize-winning Offshore - and superb biographies, Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the finest British authors of the last century. Published here for the first time are her collected letters. An unparalleled record of the life of this greatly admired writer, they reveal her most important family relationships and friendships, and paint a clear picture both of herself and of her correspondents. They show us how she managed her own career - according to her own convictions - and how determined she was to put her world view across. A fascinating portrait of Penelope Fitzgerald as a mother, as a friend and as a writer, they give the same pleasure they give to those who first opened them.

'Wise and wonderful . . . her letters offer an essential guide, perhaps better than any biography could do'

Independent on Sunday

'There is little ground to doubt that Fitzgerald was a writer of genius'

TLS