About the Author

Anna Funder is the author of the international bestsellers Stasiland and All That I Am. In 2004 Stasiland won the Samuel Johnson Prize and, along with All That I Am, has been published in twenty-six countries. All That I Am won the Miles Franklin Award, and was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. It was also chosen as a BBC Book of the Week and Book at Bedtime.

Anna was originally trained as an international human rights lawyer. She lives in Sydney.

Reviews

A marvelous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation.
*Tom Hanks*

Simply, a masterpiece. Here, Anna Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full.
*Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction*

Truly wonderful... Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait.
*Claire Tomalin*

Electrifying... Daring in both form and content, Funder's book is a nuanced, sophisticated literary achievement
*Kirkus*

A strikingly original study that casts Orwell in new light. Deeply perceptive, it is testament to forgotten wives of famous men everywhere.
*Julia Boyd*

Furious and fascinating
*The Times*

Astonishing... Wifedom is no less than the rescue of a remarkable woman from the deliberate ellipses of default male history.
*Caroline Criado-Perez, bestselling author of INVISIBLE WOMEN*

Taylor's updated life will send readers back to Orwell's compelling visions of state power and surveillance with fresh appreciation. Still, it is Funder's evocation of Eileen's fugitive life that haunts this reader's imagination. It is a spellbinding achievement
*FT*

An utter triumph, and nothing short of a miracle
*Anne Summers*

Wonderful, unexpected and exciting from beginning to end
*Antonia Fraser*