Starred KIRKUS REVIEW (8 July 2019)

Loneliness, love, and a rebellious spirit are revealed through a writer’s intimate letters.

Somerville makes an impressive book debut with a life of novelist, journalist, and intrepid war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), told through a captivating selection of her letters to friends, family, husbands, and lovers. [Read More]

Included by Toronto Star Books Editor Deborah Dundas as one of the 35 notable books for Fall

Included in the Globe and Mail Fall books roundup by Becky Toyne on September 21, 2019

Reviewed in the October issue of Quill & Quire. [Read in PDF]

October 12, 2019 Author Talk by Sue Carter in the Toronto Star

Author Spotlight on Steph Post’s blog on October 18, 2019

Toronto Sun, review by Liz Braun on November 2, 2019

Zoomer Magazine, selected as one of 8 nonfiction books to add to your TBR list on November 8, 2019

Quill and Quire, selected as one of the Best Books of 2019 in December issue [Read in PDF]

The Observer, review by BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet on December 1, 2019 [Read in PDF]

The Guardian, BOOK OF THE DAY, December 3, 2019

CBC Day 6 Interview with Brent Bambury, aired December 7, 2019

CBC The Next Chapter conversation, aired February 14, 2020

June 2020 American History Magazine
Martha Gellhorn: Writer, Warrior, Witness

Literary Hub, 5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week
September 24, 2020

New York Review of Books, “A Moral Witness” by Fintan O’Toole [Read in PDF]
October 8, 2020