Some biographies can be rather dry and confusing to follow; all too easy to become muddled up in family trees and long gone detail and affairs.
This, however, is a treat! Claire Tomalin vividly brings the times and life of Samuel Pepys to life. Look out for the toe curling depiction of a 17th century kidney stone removal…. If that doesn’t make you grateful for modern medicine, nothing will!
You can also read exactly what Samuel got up to on any day, over 300 years ago, if you look up http://www.pepysdiary.com (and how the weather/temperature would have been! It would have been much colder interestingly enough, another blow for the global warming dissenters). Pepys, is very funny and it’s worth checking out his daily entries for something amusing if you are in the need of a chuckle. It is interesting to compare spelling styles as well…..
I’ve have pinched the image off www.amazon.co.uk where you can also order the book, of course (I wonder if I should start some advertising after all..).
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