person of substance

“It’s clear from the outset that this book is not a sidekick’s tale, but the story of a person of substance — someone determined to tell her own story,” Susan Dominus writes in her review.

The resolve to claim her own narrative comes through in her book: In a review for the New York Times, Susan Dominus writes that Abedin has produced “not a sidekick’s tale, but the story of a person of substance—someone determined to tell her own story, with her name pronounced correctly, for once.”

Everyone agrees: On first meeting,, Theo may seem“quiet, oafish, socially inept,” but he is a good guy, a person of “substance and deliberation,” as Chris puts it.

He carries in his head the statutes of England, the psalms and the words of the Prophets, the columns of the king’s account books and the lineage, acreage and income of every person of substance in England.

If these letters were a blueprint for who I was becoming, I wanted to make clear that I was becoming a person of substance.