Overall, the book was okay. It's hard to have over 450 pages on a woman that left only her writings to speak for herself. All the info you can find on a female spy is conjecture and hearsay. Writing a biography with on a female with no provable past and fluid possibilities, the biographer focuses on the men that were possibles lovers, colleagues and Kings that may have used her services. So writing about the first female in England earning from her craft, the author had to construct most of her history through men - fitting.

I do realized writing about someone who didn't share or keep their past is hard. I had a hard time distinguishing this biography about a female with all the pages on men.