“在這本扣人心弦的新書當中，弗蘭妮.莫伊爾將康斯坦斯從昏暗的、骯髒的角落裡拯救出來，並將其丈夫為她帶來的恥辱一一洗淨。”
“長久以來，人們一直在為王爾德洗涮罪名。可是，在這本書裡，莫伊爾也同樣成功地為他的妻子贏回名譽。”
“這是一本經過仔細研究而得出的書籍……這也是一本敏感的傳記作品，一本為正義而作的書。”
"Franny Moyle’s biography sets the record straight...Franny does not gloss over Constance’s failures as a mother, nor her wilful blindness as a wife, but leaves us with a picture of a brave woman who married the wrong man - but loved him all the same." Daily Mail
"Like Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Franny Moyle’s Constance shows that even walk-on characters occupy centre stage in their own lives. While the whole crushing drama was self-willed by Oscar, Constance was its entirely innocent victim. There is something very moving about seeing it through her eyes." Mail on Sunday
“intimate biography reveals Wilde’s wife as more than just a victim of his infidelities” Sunday Times, ‘Must Read’ selection
"...entrancing biography...Moyle’s account, the first to draw on more than 300 of Constance’s unpublished letter, is delightful, sad, and entirely convincing; her last chapters reduced this hardened reader to tears..." Guardian
"Fine biography" Irish Independent
"In her gripping new book, Franny Moyle reclaims Constance from the dusty closet out of which Oscar so splendidly and yet so disastrously emerged....Wilde’s reputation has long since been restored. In her wonderful book, Moyle resets the balance, gloriously." The Times
Fascinating biography…Franny Moyle has done an excellent job in portraying some of the grim realities of upper-class Victorian life.” Irish News
"This sensitive biography, at last, does her justice" Sunday Times
"Sympathetic and fascinating biography" Independent on Sunday
"Franny Moyle has read far more of Constance’s letters than I have, and her book now replaces and sometimes corrects, the earlier ones on Mrs Wilde by Anne Clark Amor and Joyce Bentley...presents a full portrait of an intelligent, committed young woman trying to make an independent life for herself in a London still dominated by men...Franny Moyle tells the poignant story of Constance in the aftermath of Wilde’s trials and imprisonment, and of her brave attempts to keep in contact with him despite her suffering." Irish Times
"It was not a vintage year for biography, although there were honourable exceptions....other well received literary biographies included....Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle" Daily Telegraph
"Constance Wilde is the subject of one of this year’s most heartbreaking biographies....Moyle vindicates a remarkable and courageous woman whose loyalty to her husband was unfailing. While focusing on Constance, the book sheds new light on Wilde as a fond, endearing and surprisingly domesticated family man" Sunday Times
"Illuminating book...Moyle has been given access to an archive of unpublished family letters that shows the courtship, marriage and its aftermath from the perspective of ’Mrs Oscar’. It is a revelation and will go some way towards correcting history’s view of Constance as a succubus who somehow contributed to Oscar’s ruin." The Lady
Selected as a ‘sizzling read for the beach’ and described as ‘compelling and moving’ by Christie Hickman in the Sunday Express
Selected as one of the ‘Top 50 summer reads’ in the Independent