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Thrown out by her family, Agnes Peppin expects to spend her life as a nun at Shaftesbury Abbey. When Henry VIII dissolves the monasteries, she must use all her wits and courage to survive in a hostile, unfamiliar world.

This first full biography of Leonard Woolf (1880–1969) goes beyond his familiar role as husband of Virginia and member of the Bloomsbury set. Glendinning explores the many posts he filled during his long life, including colonial administrator, publisher, political writer and journal editor, and provides a full and lively portrait of a highly intelligent and complex man, who made significant contributions to the intellectual debates of his day.