While this is a compelling and lively book, it will give average readers a skewed introduction to Orwell. It will not replace the major biographies by Michael Shelden, Jeffrey Meyers, and Gordon Bowker, but will have some appeal to devotees of all things Orwell.
Superb! You'll never again feel paralyzed over paradigm shifts—in fact, you'll read everything with new enlightenment. Who knew that your beach novel was metafiction!