VICKI CONSTANTINE CROKE

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Excerpts from a few reviews:
 
(Full reviews available on metacritic.com.)
 
[An] INSIGHTFUL, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN work.
… [THE LADY AND THE PANDA and SEABISCUIT] both deal with bigger issues: loss, fate, love, and the way animals emotionally can touch human beings.
-- USA Today

Altogether FASCINATING …
-- The New York Times, Sunday Book Review


A REAL-LIFE INDIANA JONES ADVENTURE … [that] seems to grab hold of people and refuse to let go … Croke lived her story and it shows …
-- Chicago Tribune

 

                                                                                                            GOOD MORNING AMERICA

 
… STRANGER THAN FICTION BUT NO LESS POIGNANT. … just enough romance, rivalry, victory, disappointment and redemption … it stakes everything on exotic glamour.
-- The New York Times

EVOCATIVE AND SATISFYING, The Lady and the Panda is the sort of adventure story that cries out for a film version starring Kate Hepburn.

-- People Magazine
[31/2 Stars out of 4]


                                                                                                                                        Vogue magazine
REMARKABLY CINEMATIC, real-life adventure …
-- Entertainment Weekly

… FASCINATING …
-- Entertainment Weekly's "Must List"


ASTONISHING … LYRICALLY DESCRIPTIVE … PAGE-TURNER 
-- The Washington Post
 
This thrilling biography is brilliant.
-- The Chicago Tribune


VIVACIOUS …
-- The Globe and Mail

… An INGENIOUS STORY TO REVITALIZE YOUR SUMMER … cinematic … Croke is smart and skillful enough to give us a romantic heroine who can hang on to her louche personality and remain believable.
-- Newsday

If CATE BLANCHETT and NICOLE KIDMAN AREN'T ELBOWING EACH OTHER FORTHE CHANCE TO PLAY RUTH HARKNESS -- ``Pandas in the Mist''? -- THEY SHOULD BE.
-- San Jose Mercury News


[an] ARRESTING ACCOMPLISHMENT …

-- The Boston Globe


… RICH … THOROUGHLY ENGAGING … CAPTIVATING … remarkable … should be on every library's shelves. Highly recommended.

-- Library Journal


COMPELLING …
-- Albuquerque Journal


… a wonderful adventure …
-- Orlando Sentinel


Lively, fascinating story …
-- Chicago Sun-Times


Croke … spins an ENGAGING YARN about her intrepid hero, and does so with verve and empathy.
-- Boston Magazine