Sally Peters offers a very "inspirational" interpretation of Shaw, an eminently rational and rather abstract-minded man who who does not really respond well to such treatment. Predictably enough, she focuses frequently on Shaw's sex life, much of which was in fact rather asexual, and on how it offers a key to much of his thinking and general psychology. The result is interesting rather than wholly convincing, especially when it hints at a homosexual strain in the dramatist's character for which it is hard to see much evidence in his writings. Shaw has never been short of biographers, and this one seems a little too close to special pleading - almost a book with a thesis, in short - to rank among the best of what has been written about him as a man.