Alice I have been

Alice I Have Been is Melanie Benjamin's historical novel about Alice Liddell Hargreaves, the real girl behind Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Carroll's book. Benjamin's novel introduces the young girl whose bright spirit sent her down the rabbit hole, and then follows the woman she became, whose own story proves no less enthralling. Alice's life is a richly woven tapestry: as a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she experiences intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy.

As she nears her eighty-first birthday, Alice knows that to the world around her she is and always will be only "Alice." Blending fact and fiction, the novel captures the spirit of a woman worthy of her fictional alter ego, and the Oxford world in which Charles Dodgson photographed her and told her stories.