J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan Book

Perhaps the best biography I have ever read so far. Incredibly moving. Breaks your heart. Birkin tells the story of Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, and of the family he fell in love with, and for which he wrote his most famous story. It's about dreams and childhood, about growing up and dying, about what you wish for and what you lose forever, it's incredibly well researched, and written with such compassion by Birkin that you can feel all the complex emotions that Barrie, and the ones he loved, went through. I couldn't put this book down and have re-read it later. I'd take it with me on a desert Island. I loved it that much.