"As good as anything he has written...one of Self"s grisliest creations. There is no contemporary writer of fiction more perceptive about psychosis" - "Financial Times". "Self"s enjoyable, intelligent collection of savage stories is splendidly satiric. The title story is a brilliant novella that tells of dueling psychiatrists who use mental patients as weapons. You laugh, but you also flinch" - "Scotsman". "A destabilizing, funny, abundantly Gothic tour de force" - "Guardian".