"The Golden Veil" is a novelization of the life of Lizzie Siddal, the wife of painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Enthusiasts of Victorian history and the Pre-Raphaelite circle will enjoy catching the inaccuracies Paddy Kitchen's detailed (and often hilarliously overdramatized) story. Casual readers will only be annoyed by the melodramatic tale of an auburn-haired beauty doomed for failure in love and in life.

Some passages are mildly entertaining (most notably the suicide scene) but a few good parts don't make up for all the shortcomings of this novel.