RaveThe Independent (IRE)It helps, when you’re reading an autobiography, if you can hear the author’s voice. Brian Cox’s rasping tones bellow forth from the pages of Putting the Rabbit in the Hat ... [A] bluff and breezy memoir ... If there’s a single word that sums up his approach to all this, it’s honesty ... Cox has great war stories about working with drunk actors back in the day ... All of this is recalled with bluff good humour, and makes one pine for the time when theatre was suffused with a rebellious, rock ’n’ roll sensibility. Some reviewers have discerned a certain flatness in Cox’s writing, but he’s an actor, not an author, and he certainly knows how to tell a story ... Cox’s book is digressive and gossipy, as all celebrity biographies should be. It’s also very funny, and as salty as you would expect from the man who has conclusively proved that there are at least 50 different ways of saying f*** off.
