Review`Unique and wonderful.' Daily Mail `Possibly the best biography I have ever read.' Mark Haddon `This is a very rare and haunting book ... A great first book.' Andrew O'Hagan 'Good books like this appear about once every five years. It's been years since I've been so delighted by a book and so surprised by it ... When I'd finished I felt bereft, as if I'd lost an old friend.' Zadie Smith `Utterly compelling and very funny.' Daily Telegraph `One of the most remarkable and touching biographies I've ever read.' Minette Marin, Sunday Times 'I feel so strongly about this strange, funny, sad book that I hardly know where to begin ... My enthusiasm feels almost limitless. A page-turner.' Observer 'Funny and original, a startling book ... By the end I was doubled up in tears, but throughout I was often doubled up with laughter. It is dazzling.' Vogue 'A remarkable biography. Unforgettably moving. A gripping read.' Tim Lott, Sunday Times `A comedy of errors and horrors deftly handled and with a terrifically droll sense of humour.' Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard 'With his first book, Alexander Masters ... has achieved something remarkable. He has, without patronising, given a voice to the "underclass"; at the same time, without preaching, he shows us the value of even the most damaged of human lives ... a powerful book, humane, instructive and entirely original. Sunday TelegraphAbout the AuthorAlexander Masters lives in London. His second book, `The Genius in My Basement', was published in 2011.Alexander MastersISBN-10:0007200374Paperback:304 pagesISBN-13:978-0007200375Product Dimensions:19.71 x 2.03 x 13 cmPublisher:Fourth Estate Ltd (1 February 2006)Language:English