This is the secret story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Wonderland is part
of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history o
f the author and his subject. Charles Dodgson was a quiet academic but his secon
d self, Lewis Carroll, was a storyteller, innovator and avid collector of 'child
-friends'. Carroll's imagination was to give Alice Liddell, his 'dream-child', a
fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up. This is a biography that
beautifully unravels the magic of Alice. It is a history of love and loss, innoc
ence and ambiguity. It is the story of one man's need to make a Wonderland in a
changing world.
