Christofi collages fragments from the fiction and journals to explore Dostoevsky's three great love affairs. The result, a meticulously sourced, semi-novelistic “biography”, is both immersive and extraordinary.

Times and Sunday Times Literary Non-fiction Books of the Year

Christofi immerses us in the forcefield of Dostoevsky's thought … Beautifully crafted and realised, but it is the great love that Christofi feels for his subject that makes this such a moving book.

Frances Wilson, Guardian

…qualities which we ascribe to [Dostoevsky's] unforgettable fictional characters, were all to be found in “Fyodor” himself and Christofi describes them with warmth and understanding.

A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement

Fluently readable and warmly entertaining

Daily Telegraph

A wonderfully written life of Dostoevsky, in which the boundaries that conventionally separate biography and autobiography are dissolved to revelatory effect.

Tom Holland

Crafted with novelistic skill, it is a book to fit the vast complexity of the man and his work.

Frances Wilson, New Statesman