This book is that story's silent twin. it is full of hurt and humour and a fierce of love of life. It is about the persuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous, honest and true.

Laugh-out-loud funny...proudly, and sometimes painfully, hontest. It is also, arguably, the finest and most hopefil memoir te emerge in many years and, as such, it really should not be missed. John Burnside, The Times.