With the unique authority of his personal papers, her intimate knowledge of the man in the last years of his life, and the imaginative, insight of a professional writer, Mrs. Vaughan Williams has drawn the portrait of a great Englishman.--Times Literary Supplement Essential reading More...for anyone who cares deeply about the music of this great composer....Her writing is so fluent and her expository skill so detailed and fine that the result makes one want to turn again to the music about which one has been reading....Surely definitive...this enthralling book is thoroughly recommended.