A total delight to read, full of tidbits abut George Eliot's life and insights about her greatest work. I have to protest, though, and say that the title was a tease. The author was withholding as all heck about her own life, which wouldn't bother me except it provided a really jarring contrast to Eliot's psychological depth and unflinching character analysis. Still, the passion of the reader, the literary love-letter quality of the project, makes it a must-read for those of us who consider ourselves non-academic Victorian lit obsessives.