A fictionalised account of the life of Anny Thackeray, daughter of William Thackeray, author of Vanity Fair. I didn't know much about the Thackerays when I started this but as I read on and the book introduced figures I do know about, like Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron, I was intrigued as to how much of this story was invented and how much was true. I think the author does a good job of staying within the boundaries of the known and making what is fiction realistic. I was so interested in the fact that Anny had a long and distinguished career as a novelist and writer herself. As with so many women of her time, her achievements have been allowed to fall by the wayside and been diminished in comparison by male peers. It made me deeply curious to seek out her writing and read it. I thought this was a well written, fascinating account of a woman who has been wrongly forgotten. I enjoyed it very much.