Orpheus The Song of Life

"This insightful and visionary study, treading a perfect line between imagination and scholarship, is as readable and necessary as a fine novel. Ted Hughes, another mythographer, would have loved it" Independent "Ann Wroe has an acute eye for pastoral detail...and takes a novelist's care in exploring character and evoking atmosphere... [Orpheus] will leave you dancing" New Statesman "This is a most remarkable book... most rewarding... [a book] that will surely enhance Ann Wroe's already considerable reputation" Irish Times "Orpheus: The Song of Life is a book of wonders, learned, playful and passionate...For all her studies, her wide reading, her historical dilligence, Wroe's method is instinctive, as she searches for inspirations and connections across the millennia" -- John Banville Guardian "Curious... there are moments of sublime writing" Scotland on Sunday