"Mr. Birkin writes that he has tried to create `a documentary account,' not an interpretive biography. He offers such a wealth of firsthand information that the book holds up 25 years after it was first published (it was reissued last year) and becomes a rich complement to the film. Beautifully designed, the book reproduces letters and diary entries from Barrie and his circle, as well as dozens of photographs."-Caryn James, New York Times
"His most acute biographer, Andrew Birkin, whose, J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys, has been granted a timely reissue. [It] digs up some astounding entries from Barrie's private notebooks. Some are composed in the third person, as jottings toward a possible novel."-Anthony Lane, New Yorker
"A psychological thriller . . . one of the year's most complex and absorbing biographies."-Gerald Clarke, Time
"A terrible and fascinating story."-Eve Auchincloss, Washington Post
"It's a brave biographer that takes on James Barrie...because Andrew Birkin's extraordinary book about Barrie's relationship with the Llewelyn Davies family,
J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys, though more than a quarter-of-a-century old, continues to stick as firmly to Barrie's identity as the shadow that Wendy sews back onto Peter." -Mark Bostridge,
Independent on Sunday