Dennis O'Donnell
Praise for The Locked Ward
Crammed full of vivid anecdotes and careful observations that run from terrifying to laugh-out-loud to exquisitely painful...a valuable contribution to the literature of madness
John Burnside, Observer
Observant, modest, lightly erudite and heavily self-deprecating...an informative read.
Scotland on Sunday
I really enjoyed The Locked Ward. He is compassionate without any taint of sentimentality, and the way he uses language is so elastic. It's like he's the most brilliant court-jester in the most colourful of c ...
Gabriel Weston, author of Direct Red
Crammed full of vivid anecdotes and careful observations that run from terrifying to laugh-out-loud to exquisitely painful...a valuable contribution to the literature of madness
John Burnside, Observer
Observant, modest, lightly erudite and heavily self-deprecating...an informative read.
Scotland on Sunday
I really enjoyed The Locked Ward. He is compassionate without any taint of sentimentality, and the way he uses language is so elastic. It's like he's the most brilliant court-jester in the most colourful of c ...
Gabriel Weston, author of Direct Red
Crammed full of vivid anecdotes and careful observations that run from terrifying to laugh-out-loud to exquisitely painful...a valuable contribution to the literature of madness
John Burnside, Observer
Observant, modest, lightly erudite and heavily self-deprecating...an informative read.
Scotland on Sunday
I really enjoyed The Locked Ward. He is compassionate without any taint of sentimentality, and the way he uses language is so elastic. It's like he's the most brilliant court-jester in the most colourful of c ...
Gabriel Weston, author of Direct Red