Creation

In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, Randal Keynes discovered a child s writing case, which had been in his family for generations. The case belonged to Annie, Charles Darwin s daughter, who died at the age of ten. These hitherto unpublished letters and diaries, written by Darwin in memorial to his daughter during her illness, provide new insight into the life of a man who has been much written about but little understood.

“It is a rare biography that reveals the key emotional moment in its subject s personal and intellectual life so clearly as Randal Keynes does for Charles Darwin . . . moving and illuminating - Financial Times Engrossing . . . a biography with a difference - Sunday Telegraph Remarkable - Scotsman It is a rare biography that reveals the key emotional moment in its subject's personal and intellectual life so clearly as Randal Keynes does for Charles Darwin . . . moving and illuminating - Financial Times Engrossing . . . a biography with a difference - Sunday Telegraph Remarkable - Scotsman”

It is a rare biography that reveals the key emotional moment in its subject s personal and intellectual life so clearly as Randal Keynes does for Charles Darwin . . . moving and illuminating - Financial Times

Engrossing . . . a biography with a difference - Sunday Telegraph

Remarkable - Scotsman

It is a rare biography that reveals the key emotional moment in its subject's personal and intellectual life so clearly as Randal Keynes does for Charles Darwin . . . moving and illuminating - Financial Times

Engrossing . . . a biography with a difference - Sunday Telegraph

Remarkable - Scotsman

Randal Keynes is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin and a great-nephew of economist John Maynard Keynes. He lives and works in London. This is his first book.

In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, Randal Keynes discovered a child s writing case, which had been in his family for generations. The case belonged to Annie, Charles Darwin s daughter, who died at the age of ten. These hitherto unpublished letters and diaries, written by Darwin in memorial to his daughter during her illness, provide new insight into the life of a man who has been much written about but little understood.

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