This biography of the novelist Dorothy Leigh Sayers - the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and the bestselling author of a dozen detective novels - brings out the spiritual pilgrimage and struggle at the heart of Sayers' life story. The author, who draws on thousands of letters Sayers wrote, reveals her to be a complex woman. Sayers was a very private person who even hid the existence of an illegitimate child from her closest friends. She was also someone to whom faith was central and wrote many theological books as well as the famous detective novels. Her radio play on the life of Christ, "The Man Born to be King", caused a furore when it was first broadcast and went on to win acclaim. She was linked with the Inklings - the group of writers which included C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien and others.
- ISBN10 0745922414
- ISBN13 9780745922416
- Publish Date 30 September 1993 (first published 30 October 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 July 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lion Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English