Her life may have been a mess, but this masterful biography shows that it was her mess, and a magnificent mess, too, in its own particular way' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday ***** 'It takes a fine biographer to capture a woman as parti-coloured as this, and Sullivan has produced a delicate, balanced and unforgettably good portrait of a courageous and magnificent woman' Daily Telegraph ***** 'What would it mean to be the child of one of the most feared mass murderers in history? Rosemary Sullivan's compelling biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's only daughter, makes an admirable attempt at an answer.The remarkable thing about Stalin's daughter was not that she was imperious, infuriating, batty at times, but that she had survived at all - and survived, as this entertaining book shows, with her dignity and integrity in tact' Sunday Times 'Was Stalin a monster? Oh, yes. Never have I read a biography that reminded my more of a picaresque novel, with its heroine bouncing like a pinball from one location to another, from one bizarre situation to another. 'A tremendously exciting and stimulating biography. You exist only in reference to a name.' Read more The victim of an inescapable truth: 'You are Stalin's daughter. A woman who tore through relationships with men, joined and abandoned various religions, and became the most famous defector to the United States. An observer as her relatives were mercilessly killed and her first love exiled. was Svetlana Alliluyeva? A little girl, her father's only daughter, his 'little sparrow' instructed to bury her secrets in her heart by her mother, who shot herself soon after. 'Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent 'Superbly well told' Sunday Times Who. Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana by rosemary sullivan