I enjoyed my review copy and was bemused to see my review published in a number of periodicals, mainly on line, that don't usually take such material.

I was glad to see it was focussed on Peggy and her international standing as a fine musician, adept commentator and real person with real faults. (I only met her twice to date yet found myself nodding at the description of some of them.)

The biography is about her and not really about her twin shadows. She has had to live with being "another Seeger" and "Ewan MacColl's sidekick."   Whilst both aspects are covered, it is her original talent that comes over. Small beer such as arranging tunes to MacColl's words, the critics group and forthright current affairs interest get barely a mention in terms of association but how they weave into her picture is cleverly covered.

She is unique in being seen as an important piece of the American folk jigsaw and at the same time, equally an architect of the UK folk revival. In my review, my one criticism, not so much of the book but of Peggy is that she has been promoting the degree to which much of MacColl's work was purely written by her under joint credit and generally seen as his writing. Whilst this must be frustrating, saying it is as uncomfortable for listeners as Paul McCartney picking out which of the Lennon McCartney songs were sans Lennon. Technical accuracy misses the point.