PositiveIrish Times (IRE)Didion conveys [her psychiatrist] with such detail I wondered if she’d brought a dictaphone to therapy ... Undeniably affecting, and Didion’s swerves between fear and frustration will be acutely familiar to anyone who’s lived with a loved one’s addiction ... Notes to John is full of the kind of clear-eyed detail that made Joan Didion her name. Obviously this is a woman to whom words mattered—I’m just not sure we should be reading these ones.
