Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self

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Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him exactly what it was like to be a young man in Restoration London. This diary lies at the heart of Claire Tomalin's biography. Yet the use she makes of it - and of other hitherto unexamined material - is startlingly fresh and original. Within and beyond the narrative of Pepys's extraordinary career she explores his inner life - his relations with women his fears and ambitions his political shifts his agonies and his delights.