From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, his complicated marriages, the first forty years of H. G. Wells' extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world's most influential writers, the father of Science Fiction.
A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers.