A Trouser-Wearing Character: Life and Times of Nancy Spain
‘Rose Collis presents us with a character so warm and barmy and vivid that she bounces off the pages and into your heart…’ Val Hennessey, Daily Mail
‘Delightfully readable, with an unusually vivid sense of the recent past and its personalities, she is a young biographer to watch.’ The Spectator
‘Collis on Spain is scatty, readable and fun…’ Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph
‘A vigorous, warm, fluent biography of a vigorous, warm, fluent woman.’ Francis King, Literary Review
‘Rose Collis has written a most conscientious biography of…the real first lady of Fleet Street’ Anthony Howard, Sunday Times
One of the ‘Books of the Year’ 1997, chosen by Shena McKay, The Independent, and Jonathan Cecil, The Spectator
