RaveNPR...quietly elegant... [Cregan] tries to grab mental illness and depression by its roots in human history. For those of us family members who\'ve wrestled with it, her examination of melancholia (melan from the Greek, transliterated into Latin, meaning \'black, dark, murky,\' and khole, \'bile\') makes this book an instant classic.
Marin Sardy
RaveNPRIn the beautifully prismatic The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia, Sardy writes... eloquently ... [a] blazing memoir[.]
Amanda Stern
PositiveNPR...a unique and searching voice ... Stern\'s language is a child\'s, simple and affecting ... an enduring work...
Mary S. Lovell
PositiveNPREven in the hands of the legendary biographer Mary Lovell, I wondered if the denizens of The Riviera Set would sustain our interest five decades on, for the book ends in 1960 — and ostentatious wealth is now on a nasty bender. However, being gauche and being louche are two different things, and just about everyone at the Chateau de L'Horizon knew how to be outrageously amusing, utter a riveting bon mot, and mix an unheard-of cocktail ... Lovell takes us through three decades, two world wars, and endless intrigue ... Mary Lovell writes that she'd never before attempted the biography of a house, but came across Elliott and the chateau when she was researching a book on Churchill, and had to tell this story. The Riviera Set is overstuffed with social butterflies and 10th barons of What's -it-Shires of the Realm, but what Elliott did for Churchill — giving him a taste of peace and prosperity in his time, at least on the Chateau's waterslide — probably helped save England, and by extension, the Allies ... The Cote D'Azur may still be a playground, but today's Russian oligarchs and super-rich are far less fascinating than Maxine Elliott's firmament, which shines again here.
