4.03 avg rating — 822 ratings

"An absolute classic - and finally back in print after decades of being a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Cannot recommend this enough."

4.05 avg rating — 1,206,030 ratings

"Don't let the Tumblr quotes put you off; it's witty and arch and a total breeze to read."

4.02 avg rating — 731 ratings

"Became a film that became a consciousness-raising phenomenon that became an honest-to-God reform movement. Shame the film took such hideous liberties with the text."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings

"The little-known sequel - well, sort of - of Ward's earlier bank-breaker; a fun and compelling account of one of the author's post-'Snake Pit' mental health relapses, told in the warm, witty style of her later novels."

3.86 avg rating — 400 ratings

"The un-tinkered-with story of 'The Three Faces of Eve''s Chris Costner Sizemore - the last Big Name in multiple personality before 'Sybil' turned the literature into survivor-porn - and there's rather a lot more of it than you'd expect."

3.90 avg rating — 35,481 ratings

"A bleak, but fascinating read. I wish I'd got to it when I was younger; I'm sure I'd have eaten it up like sweeties."

3.22 avg rating — 328 ratings

"Just great fun. And written in the John Keel-like style I've come to know as Wiseacre American Journalist, which is fun in itself."

3.75 avg rating — 838 ratings

"The therapy is dated and creepy now; the main draw of the book is its chillingly realised depictions of paranoia and derealisation."

3.78 avg rating — 503 ratings

"One of the first Memoirs of Madness ever - Wikipedia, inaccurately, claims the first. A short, fun read with some very funny moments - just skip the appendices."