Alice I Have Been

Part love story part literary mystery Melanie Benjamins spellbinding historical novel leads readers on an unforgettable journey down the rabbit hole to tell the story of a woman whose own life became the stuff of legend. Her name is Alice Liddell Hargreaves but to the world shell always be known simply as Alice the girl who followed the White Rabbit into a wonderland of Mad Hatters Queens of Hearts and Cheshire Cats. Now nearing her eighty-first birthday she looks back on a life of intense passion great privilege and greater tragedy. First as a young woman then as a wife mother and widow shell experience adventures the likes of which not even her fictional counterpart could have imagined. Yet from glittering balls and royal romances to a world plunged into war shell always be the same determined undaunted Alice who at ten years old urged a shy stuttering Oxford professor to write down one of his fanciful stories thus changing her life forever.