Thoroughly three-dimensional
Thankfully, this publication does not fall into the trap, that so many Christian biographies do, of concentrating only on the strengths and successes of its subject and hardly mentioning his or her weaknesses or failures.
Nadine Parker
BETSY
The dramatic biography of prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry
By Jean Hatton. Monarch Books. 368 pages. £8.99
ISBN 1 85424 705 0