Ann Wroe is the Briefings and Obituaries editor of The Economist. She is the author of six previous works of non-fiction, including Pilate- The Biography of an Invented Man, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award and the W.H. Smith Award. She lives in north London.
This passionate series of engagements with the life of St Francis will stay in my mind for a very long time - I hope forever... This is a poet with a distinctive voice, a command of form and a lightness of touch matched by a depth of heart... Wroe so triumphantly [exercises the imagination] in poem after poem. -- A. N. Wilson * Spectator * This extraordinary book... is quite haunting... [Francis] is one of the saints who is appealing even in a secular age... this isn't a book just for the faithful; it's for lovers of poetry in life and literature... a wonderful little book. -- Melanie McDonagh * Evening Standard *