Middlemarch with Rebecca Mead

Published when George Eliot was fifty-one, Middlemarch has at its centre one of literature’s most compelling and ill-fated marriages, and some of the most tenderly drawn characters. Its vast canvas incorporates the lives of ordinary people and their most intimate struggles.

Rebecca Mead celebrates George Eliot’s life, work and greatest novel, exploring through a mixture of literary biography, deep reading and personal memoir, how Middlemarch answers fundamental questions  about life and love.