This is a long but most enjoyable biography. The reader needs application and stickability but I think he/she is amply rewarded.

The author appears to have researched her subject with amazing thoroughness and has not only end of chapter footnotes but there are endnotes by chapter as well. In the Kindle version I found the footnotes at the end of the chapter very frustrating and oftentimes did not go back to the place where the footnote was. The explanatory pieces at the end are useful too, but the Kindle version does not appear to have an index.

Not only does one learn about the lives of Nikolaus and Lola Pevsner, but the book traces the development of the subject of art history because Pevsner was so bound up in it from his time in Germany and then of course in the UK. I wished I could have had the whole range of his works beside me to look at as they were referred to.

Because of the decisions made at the time of World War II regarding their family life, the book has a built-in tension which is perhaps not so usual in a biography. Certainly Susie harries uses this to full advantage. The biography is ably complemented by the section of photographs at the end. ( )