Samuel Pepys: A Life - Softcover

'A subtle and intelligent portrait, not just of the man, but of the volatile political milieu in which he moved' -- SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Coote's work provides us with new highlights and shadows to ponder a man who "fills his eyes" until his sight fails' -- INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Stephen Coote has written a bright, breezy life that is balanced and readable and captures the man and his age' -- LITERARY REVIEW 'A good story racily told' -- DAILY EXPRESS 'Coote captures both the prudential and the pleasure-loving aspects of his subject's complex character' -- MAIL ON SUNDAY 'An engaging and uncommonly well-written book' -- SCOTSMAN 'A splendid new biography about England's most famous diarist. ... A revealing and extraordinary portrait' -- LANCASHIRE EVENING POST

Pepys was a highly energetic man and closely involved in the strenuous and exciting times. This is an irresistible combination of public events and private passions, but above all this is a story of warmth and achievement, of affections and sadnesses, and of great things done by a man from no very special background who had to make his own way in the world. Here is a career of extraordinary richness and diversity, in PEPYS, Stephen Coote uses his skills as a historical biographer and accomplished story teller to reveal both the mind and the man, the life and the times with pace, detail, humour and wit.