‘A vivid and honest account of what it’s like to be terribly ill. The details are brilliantly recollected and he writes with a songwriter’s eye for the telling phrase’
‘Wa is such a good writer that you feel straight away that you’re in good hands’ W I L L I A M L E I T H M A I L O N S U N D AY
‘In the summer of 1992, on the eve of a trip to America, I was taken to a London hospital with bad chest pain and stomach pains. They kept me in for two and a half months. I fell very ill — about as ill as it is possible to be without actually dying — confronting a disease hardly anyone, not even some doctors, had heard of. People ask what was it like, and I say yes, of course it was dramatic and graphic and all that stuff, but at times it was just kind of comic and strange. It was, I suppose, my life-changing story.’ ‘Not at all depressing, thanks to the author’s extremely well-turned prose … This is not so much for music lovers as for lovers of life’ S U N DAY T I M E S
PAT I E N T
OBSERVER
‘Lucid and affecting … He’s a natural writer, and Patient is certainly the best book I’ve ever read by a pop star’
B E N WAT T
TIME OUT
‘Wri en with the intensity and lyricism one would expect from its author . . . A triumphant, gripping memoir’ D A I LY T E L E G R A P H
‘Vividly wri en, this is both appealing and appalling — a glimpse into the abyss’ ★ ★ ★ ★ M A I L O N S U N D AY B O O K S O F T H E Y E A R Design by Greg Heinimann. Cover photograph © PhotoAlto / Alamy www.bloomsbury.com
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PAT I E N T THE TRUE STORY OF A RARE ILLNESS
‘By turns terrifying, mordantly funny and intensely moving’
‘Wa ’s harrowing, candid account lives on in the mind’
D A I LY T E L E G R A P H
W I L L I A M B OY D
£8.99
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