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"...perky, clever and rather wise, these pieces still slip down as easily as a nice cold glass of something crisp and white..."

"a moving and absorbing in-depth investigation..."

"This is the book you will want to read if you are a parent of teenage children. ..."

"The brothers’ relationship is a sharply rendered study in sibling rivalry, with Hart’s internal monologue punctuated by flashes of raw animus..."

"Although some books on grief can be prescriptive and preachy, this one is neither..."

"this is a whole-hearted and important attempt to analyse what has gone wrong for so many men..."

"you finish the book consoled if not quite satisfied..."

"Anderson’s memories and those of his family are vividly rendered. ..."

"Brian Deer’s definitive account of Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent attempt to link the onset of autism in children with the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine could not be better timed...."

"I wish I'd had this to read 10 years ago..."

"There is a stillness to Svensson’s writing that perfectly suits the eel and his enigmatic father..."

"They deserve a better account than this...."

"an acerbic must-read..."

"(a) remarkable family memoir..."

"full of beautiful prose, powerful metaphors and astute observations..."

"Lemoine writes evocatively ..."

"Straub’s book is one of those smartly observant, wryly witty, big-hearted literary-commercial American novels ..."

"a moving account of the collision between aspiration and reality..."

"a powerful, poignant tale of dieting and despair..."

"in telling the story of a codependent, her other great success is to humanise the addict..."

"Rose-tinted as Wild Child may be, its message is an urgent one..."

"smart and funny..."