It will touch your soul and open your heart. With honesty and clarity, this woman's story is both inspiring and healing.

Angie's message is one of healing and hope, a carefully crafted chronicle, skilfully put together ... Do read it!

The writing style is fluent, informative and seamlessly interwoven with clear and practical insights ... an unmissable book.

Explains a revolutionary way to care for dementia patients ... tender techniques that can ease absent minds

I bought it and can confirm that anyone who wants help in caring for the condition will find this excellent work a revelation

remarkably simple ... The resulting well-being can last a lifetime

shows that dementia need not be a nightmare of frustration and embarrassment ... James shows that it is possible to unlock isolation and distress

Oliver James has made a great job of setting out the SPECAL theory and method in this book which I strongly recommend to all care home managers and staff teams

Shows how to minimize that distress and manage the dementia in ways that recall early pioneering work on dealing with madness . . . He writes clearly and plainly, gives good examples of the techniques he suggests, and stays always on the practical side. I expected this book to be depressing; it is exactly the opposite.

This is a poignant memoir: part therapy, part chronicle

Things I've Been Silent About is a kind of companion volume to Nafisi's 2003 memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran ... giving us finely etched portraits of her tempestuous authoritarian mother, and her doting, unassertive father, who was a mayor Tehran under the Shah

A portrait of a family and a country that are at once alluring and deeply dysfunctional

[A] beautifully written memoir

A gifted storyteller with a mastery of Western literature, Nafisi knows how to use language both to settle scores and to seduce. Her family secrets pour forth in a flood of revelations of anger, humiliation and deceit

An utterly memorable book

All readers should read it

Enthralled

This is a remarkable insight into a fascinating period of history, and a touching portrait of astonishing tenacity and integrity in the face of adversity that few in the Western world could imagine

A balanced, lucid narrative; a rich, complex account of this crucial part of Iranian history

A powerful memoir of Nafisi's Iranian childhood, her mother and a homeland shattered by political revolution