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" Dear Friend demonstrates how, in fiction, there is the potential to find freedom and escape from life..."

"a wild, genre-defying wake-up call of a book...."

"Time to Go fairly pulses with life — and, strangely, disarming humour..."

"Aoife Abbey gives voice to the complexity of what it means to be a human being..."

"moving...unflinching on loss, longing and choice..."

"After several false starts, Brand’s worldview has become surprisingly mature..."

"the question of what women “really” are is worth asking..."

"This is a sparkling and illuminating study..."

"it is hard to imagine a more likeable guide..."

"Warner notes that the health arguments and the aesthetic judgments about fatness and obesity have got mixed up ..."

"A culture shift which repositions a single person as someone who is relationship-free, complete, and not lacking, is long overdue...."

"America’s opioid epidemic — a tale of greed, individual suffering and official incompetence — will blight the country for years to come..."

"a work of detailed journalism, covering what are essentially disparate and sometimes very complex subjects. ..."

" at the core of her moving but meandering bereavement memoir, there's a better book on female anger seeking permission to kick, punch and spit its way out..."