This is undoubtedly the best biography we have to date, if we judge it by how close we are brought to the historical truth about Harris. Pullar evidently performed a huge amount of research in the course of writing this book, and the results show on every page. Where there are contradictions in accounts of events, and this happens more often than not with Harris, she shows us if not a final truth, for that is often impossible to discern, but in which direction the truth may lie.