Penguin Books

Masterful ... Eminently enjoyable — Los Angeles Times More…

Attlee writes with rare beauty and sensitivity about music, and her love of Italian culture positively sings from the pages ... Deeply absorbing -- Kate Wakeling — BBC Music Magazine More…

Ranting, raging, burning...relentlessly splenetic, a long and sustained rant...may also be the funniest music book ever written — The Observer More…

A writer so insistent on the possibility of imaginative connection, so generous and curious with regard to her readers — Evening Standard More…

Now comes the new translation by John Deathridge, doyen of English-speaking Wagner scholars, with a grasp of his life and writings that may never have been equalled. [...] In that noble enterprise... — Spectator More…