O Brother Signed Bookplate Edition

Vivid, visceral, brilliantly funny in places, dispensing sharp punches to the gut in others . . . [O Brother] made me sob more than once, and I suspect it will do the same to you * * Guardian * *
Riotous and yet bracingly moving . . . Often exuberant, laugh-out-loud funny, touching, sad and rueful, in the way that looking back with a wisdom achieved at a high price inevitably is * * Observer * *
Heartbreaking, and told with tenderness and honesty . . . The writing is first rate, without announcing how good it is. I can't recommend it strongly enough * * Spectator * *
An honest epitaph for a troubled soul, tender and sentimental, but shot through with anger and regret for the things left unsaid * * The Times * *
Oh my God, this book! O Brother feels like war-level reportage from the nuclear-blast that suicide inflicts on a family. [. . . ] A book whose genuine importance is only equaled by its sheer, visceral, compulsive readability -- CAITLIN MORAN
Absurdly well-written, painfully funny and painfully painful -- ADAM KAY
Tender, raw and beautiful . . . Niven is a tremendous storyteller. It is a memoir, it is a remembrance, and it is a guttural cry for us all to take those we love and hold them closer, to love them harder - to fight for them, in a society that gives up on men like Gary all too easily * * iPaper * *
As moving, scalding, funny and harrowing as any memoir I've ever read -- IAN RANKIN
O Brother is an extraordinary memoir; as devastating as it is colourful, forensic in its examination of family dynamics and oh so beautifully written. I earmarked so many pages that my copy doubled in width. Do not read the final chapter without a box of tissues -- JOJO MOYES
Painfully honest [and] ferociously sharp on the contours of both brotherly love and brotherly rivalry. Of course, there's much more to it than that * * Scotsman * *

This is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. It is a tribute to the sort of unglamorously off-kilter people,
not really cut out for ordinary life, who are so rarely examined in books. It had me hooting with laughter, rage and despair in turn

* * Daily Mirror * *
An extraordinary book. Simultaneously tragic and funny and dark but shot through with bursts of light and laughter and joy -- CHARLIE HIGSON
Heartbreaking and heartwarming -- WILL YOUNG
This is a work of scalding honesty and candour which explores the devastating impact of suicide on a family . . . An act of remembrance and a testimony to his brother [. . .]. Transcendent power and anguish, shot through with brilliant humour and insight. I couldn't put it down -- SALI HUGHES
The most brutally honest account of suicide and what it does to a family. John's pain is palpable on the pages. Yet this is no misery memoir, John brings his brother to life with real tenderness and love mixed with familiar west of Scotland black humour * * Sunday Mail * *
Both searing and cauterising * * Scotland on Sunday * *