I hope that everyone who has read or seen Murder in the Cathedral will read Mr Speaight's biography. He not only makes the subject extremely interesting but has been, I think, quite fair to King Henry and Becket's opponents. And his book, as an historical and biographical study, is distinguished by the fact that he has written not merely the Life of a great ecclesiastic who influenced the course of English history, but the Life of a Saint. - This is T..S. Eliot's description of the book.
A sympathetic yet temperate account of the career that made St Thomas of Canterbury the most popular saint of the Middle Ages - The Times Literary Supplement
Mr Speaight writes with rare discernment - The Tablet
Good condition with dust jacket slightly frayed. Frontispiece and one illustration.
This is a second edition, with a new introduction, published by Longman Green in 1949.
