On the eve of her eagerly awaited life of Dickens, the grande dame of literary biography talks about seeing the world through the eyes of her subjects " and why the one remarkable life she is reluctant to write is her ownThanks to a childhood spent poking my nose through bannisters, I think of landings as places for eavesdropping, for the discovery of shocking adult secrets. So it seems appropriate that it is to a la…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on September 24, 2011