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"Waller's lively, colourful and fascinating book should help restore interest in an unjustly forgotten icon." Miranda Seymour - The Daily Telegraph

"a fascinating biography of a Victorian enigma: a man who vigorously transgressed the social taboos of his era, and achieved fame and wealth for doing so. David Waller tells Sandow's story with wit, insight and a sure hand." - Amanda Foreman

"...hugely entertaining ... Waller skilfully places Sandow within the context of the age." - Juliet Nicolson - The Evening Standard

"Waller...furnishes a narrative rich in stories reflecting Victorian life." - Valerie Grove - The Times

“And what is by my side of the bed? David Waller’s biography of the hugely famous Victorian strongman Eugen Sandow – it’s a fascinating look at celebrity culture of the period.” – Mrs Moneypenny – The Financial Times

“A fascinating and exotic tale, cleverly told, of the rise of a man from illegitimacy and obscurity to music-hall success and pioneering body-building” – Rosemary Ashton

“The Perfect Man now has the perfect biographer. Like its subject, David Waller’s book is well-balanced and a thing of beauty that bulges in all the right places” – Rose Collis, author of Colonel Barker’s Monstrous Regiment