Insightful, frank and often moving... Though there is an underlying note of deep sadness, more often she writes with humour, a dose of self mockery and no small amount of courage.

[An] unsparing memoir... but Raven does much more than write an illness memoir... Raven explains in her introduction that Huntington's is not a linear disease but is experienced rather as a series of traumatic random-seeming assaults... it is that formless inevitability...that Raven enacts so powerfully here.

A phenomenal achievement... [it] chronicles her journey into her illness in a way that is truthful, traumatic and brave.

Brutally candid... [a] devastating but remarkable testament of self-preservation.

Charlotte Raven's Patient 1 is brilliant, terrifying, heart-breaking and laceratingly honest. She has the unflinching, unsentimental clarity of Rachel Cusk and the tender humour of John Bayley - but her style is utterly unique.

A searingly honest and important read. With neither pity nor sentimentality, Charlotte Raven captures the experience of living while losing one's mind. I cannot forget her words.

This is a deeply moving and profound memoir about facing the worst in life - and continuing. Everyone should read it.

Patient 1 charts Charlotte Raven's bittersweet journey from her charmed, hedonist youth to an embattled future. Her charismatic character and scandalous humour is there on the page despite the creeping privations of Huntington's. With the kind of self-knowledge only accessible through suffering, she still manages to write powerfully and with beauty.

A powerful account of living with Huntington's disease.

[A] chatty, irreverent memoir... a surprisingly pithy and entertaining read. The author's candour and self-depreciation make her all the more likeable.

Considering this is essentially a book about a terminal illness, it's surprisingly entertaining.

Raven is unsparing about her life now... she hasn't lost...her biting wit and mordant sense of humour.

Will actually help you decide what to add to your next grocery shop... This is one of the clearest and most accessible short nutrition books I have read: refreshingly open-minded, deeply informative and free of faddish diet rules.

A well-researched and informative book ... Great to see academia catching up with the real world.

The book that needed to be written about the Lake District.

A poetic journey of restoring nature in an iconic landscape. Wild Fell informs and inspires.

A visionary, practical and lyrical book on restoring land, from one of the best in the game, on the front line of nature restoration.

Lee Schofield's Wild Fell is a soaring elegy to nature, a book infused with a deep love of place, and a stirring call to restore wildlife to our landscapes. Written with wit, verve and humility, Wild Fell is above all a story of hope, weaving together deep insights about botany and the history of the land with a wisdom won through years of practical experience.

Wild Fell is a beautiful, powerful book that subtly navigates great and complex challenges.