A startling and deeply moving memoir about illness from one of the great chroniclers of British working-class life.
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- 2024
- 2022
Part memoir, part cultural history: a brilliant, funny, moving, and insightful book about agoraphobia, its history, its appearances in literature, and a reckoning of a life lived under its rule.
- 2017
The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
A compelling, often hilarious, and exceptionally powerful account of an 80s adolescence navigated via literature and music, the English class system - and the impact of and recovery from abuse.