"Darkly funny. heartbreaking." -- Sam Knight, The New Yorker "Hilarious and heartbreaking.I howled, yelped, and occasionally choked with laughter.This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way." -- Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times (London), "Humour Book of the Year" "It's so hilarious. It's so irreverent, both about himself, the patients, the doctors in charge of him, that I think I laughed on every page." -- Kristan Higgins, Entertainment Weekly "Blisteringly funny.
" -- Boston Globe "So clinically funny and politically important that it should be given out on prescription." -- The Guardian "Brilliant. Five stars. Amazing." -- Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time "Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble, and entirely lovable." -- Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, and author of Mythos "Bloody funny." -- Minnie Driver.