Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life

Literary Non-fiction Book of the Year (2021) by The Times and Sunday Times
'Beautifully crafted and realised' -- Guardian

Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar's inner circle. He had three great love affairs, each overshadowed by debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling. Somehow, amid a...