Archbishop Sarah Mullally: A Biography is an authoritative study of the first woman to be Archbishop of Canterbury in Anglicanism’s 1,400-year history. Engagingly written and expertly told, Atherstone’s biography charts Dame Sarah’s distinguished career and her rapid rise through the ranks of two of Britain’s most important institutions: the National Health Service and the Church of England. In nursing, she rose from a student trainee to become the youngest ever Chief Nursing Officer in the Department of Health. In the Church, she began as a volunteer curate, rising through parish rectory and cathedral canonry to become the first female Bishop of London, and now the first female Archbishop. Her appointment is a defining moment not only for the Church of England but for international Christianity.