PositiveThe Irish Times (IRE)There are so many pills contained within this book that the reader will be tempted to shake it to see if it rattles. The memoir, which Perry began writing on his notes app during the pandemic, is spiky, fast paced and relentlessly self-lacerating. Perry’s grudges are amusing and specific ... He dishes zero gossip on his five co-stars but confirms that off-set, they are all good eggs. He chronicles his various love affairs with a candour that other famous names will not relish ... He achieves something approaching peace towards the final pages. Being Chandler Bing must be a strange and curious fate for an actor, but with it Perry has produced a fizzing account of wrestling the demons of television fame.
Bonnie Tsui
PositiveThe Irish Times (IRE)Deep within this book is this hint of a personal family memoir as told through the great swimming escapades of her life ... reading the book you can’t but feel that there is a vital personal memoir locked within. But it’s not the book she set out to write here. While Tsui’s personal relationship with water is a guiding tread through oceans and thousands of years, the book itself is almost structureless from chapter to chapter ... It’s definitely a book for swimming nerds but also easily accessible for anyone with an interest in water. That 372,000 people die from drowning each year is one of the most sobering statistics in a book that is crowded with numbers and facts without being weighed down.
