Cunning, complex and claustrophobic…full of pitch black humour.London Evening Standard
Utterly convincing and compelling.
Reader’s Digest
Billingham’s picture of the ward and its staff is full of humanity. He gets better and better.
Literary Review
Tough, compassionate and fiercely funny.
Daily Mail
A gripping, twisting murder mystery and a blackly comic indictment of the way we treat psychological illness today. At the very least it should reach the shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize.
Sunday Times. Crime Novel of the Year