PositiveThe London Magazine (UK)In this memoir his language is often at its most colloquial when he is being most serious, a contrast he negotiates to great effect ... There is a lived-in specificity to his observations ... His experience of the mental health ward, which he is able to recall with extraordinary detail, is a poignant and uncomfortable account in equal measure, but also serves to accentuate the weaker points of this memoir – specifically, its petty excursus on identity politics.