"This book is a howl of pain, beautifully written by a man wounded beyond endurance" Sunday Telegraph "A memoir and a meditation that is provocative, humorous, stimulating and profoundly affecting...accomplished...a great, unsettling book" Glasgow Herald "Magnificent . as with the best art only suffering and loss can create such brilliance'" Scottish Review of Books "A curious first person account" Sunday Business Post "Unsettling but moving true story" Big Issue in the North