A love story and a literary mystery, Alice I Have Been brilliantly blends fact and fiction to capture the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego, in a world as captivating as the Wonderland only she could inspire.Join us for a reading, conversation, and book-signing with Mrtha Hall Kelly and Melanie Benjamin.
Yet even as she stands to lose everything she treasures, one part of her will always be the determined, undaunted Alice of the story, who discovered that life beyond the rabbit hole was an astonishing journey. For Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. And as Alice's childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice-he changes her life forever. That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only "Alice." Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year-the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories.
Does it sound ungrateful? Alice Liddell Hargreaves's life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she's experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland.
Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole-and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling. Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
BONUS: This edition contains an Alice I Have Been discussion guide and an excerpt from Melanie Benjamin's The Autobiography of Mrs.
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