The Alice Behind Wonderland - skip this one.
As Winchester notes in his small yet often long-winded novel, there are volumes dedicated to the relationship Carroll had with the Liddell family, namely Alice (for which he named his stories). Winchester's novel tries to focus on the infamous photograph of Alice that shows a young girl having a strange, haunted and almost seductive look in her eye, but ultimately reads like an essay gone on too long. Unnecessary details about photography and speculation pad this book, which ultimately concludes that nothing indecent happened between Caroll and Alice (or any other children).
My verdict is to skip this book, and stick with one of the more detailed volumes, or even just look for information online, where you can also see the pictures Winchester describes. The photographs themselves speak more, and more eloquently, than this book.
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