Utterly contemporary, yet drawing on ancient wisdom, this book speaks to all who are concerned about the fate of humanity and who are looking for meaning in their lives.

Vivianne Crowley, a wise Witch and Priestess, has crafted a memoir of beautifully told tales about her magical and well-lived life that will awaken the magic within and guide you to the enchanted adventure that awaits.

This is the best book on the experience of magic that I have ever read, a result made possible by the author's equal prowess as a scientist and a poet, and her extraordinary variety of training and practice in different traditions.

All over the developed world, young people are seeking wisdom, spirituality, enlightenment. Women in particular have been reclaiming their identity as witches - clumsily, but also intuitively, hopefully. There could be no better guide for all such seekers than Vivianne Crowley. In this heartfelt and often beautiful memoir, she shares her own story, without dogma, but with an enormous and tolerant wisdom. Witches, look no further! This is the guide you need.

Fortunately, there are luminous guides like Vivianne Crowley who know how to show us the hidden path to ancient magic, Wicca and Paganism. In "Wild Once" she combines profound spiritual knowledge with personal experiences and takes us on a magical journey. A field guide to the realm of magic and simply a must read.

Wild Once will take you inside the soul of one of the most famous of modern witches. Filled with anecdotes and insights that are both wonderfully inspirational and highly practical - if you have ever wondered what it's like to be a witch in Real Life, just read this book!

really very good...Hill has a light descriptive touch, but when he aims at poetry, he hits it... Hill's command of tone - his ability to glide beautifully between comedy and horror - has made us trust him happily

A stunningly well-written, funny, heartrending and utterly gripping memoir about learning how to live with who we are. Read it. Read it now

A wildly original and gripping debut, told with humour and compassion, about what it means to survive

What a frightening and funny book, full of shocking, memorable scenes. I'm glad Matt Rowland Hill lived to tell the tale

a tremendous book

I tore through this brilliant, fearless book. From the first page to the last, it's funny, insightful and beautifully written

Original Sins is a shattering portrait of addiction -- it's generously open, desperately honest and confronting. While it is heartbreaking, there is humour and compassion. It's a journey through darkness, against fear, to finding the light in oneself

A courageous and often shocking book about the plague of addiction. Yet Original Sins is written with a wild, brilliant humour that offsets the horror. Gripping, hilarious and unforgettable, this is an inspirational survivor's story

Matt Rowland Hill has gone to the depths of himself and emerged with something unique, graceful, piercingly smart, and devilishly funny. Many books have been written about addiction. Original Sins is unlike all of them, and stands among the very best

Matt Rowland Hill guides us to the edge of devastation, and doesn't flinch from the ache of addiction, family anguish and inward despair. But this is a book that's optimistic to the core, as honest about grief as it is about joy. I won't forget it

A tour de force

A scorching, relentless, absolutely essential read about the roots of addiction and what it takes to save yourself. Hill writes like he has nothing to lose, and like he was born to create this harrowing, utterly transfixing, beautifully wrought portrait of a young man tortured by the twin horrors of family and religion... To take that darkness and make a brilliant, forceful work of literature from it is the holiest alchemy

Original Sins is a wonderful, shimmering book; a tonal triumph that shifts nimbly between funny, poignant, sly and direct. More than that, within its propulsive, psychologically honest pages, is a genuine wisdom

Matt Rowland Hill's marvellous debut, by turns excruciatingly anguished and elatingly funny but always engrossing, is an essential experience for anyone interested in family dynamics, adolescence, class, psychology, theology, or English prose

A brutally honest reflection on family faith and addition

Matt Rowland Hill writes so beautifully and with such intelligence and precision, such elegance and control, that really, I'd happily read his thoughts on the most mundane of matters. But Original Sins is certainly not that. It's a startlingly candid memoir of addiction, faith, loss, family, anguish, despair, hope, love. It's simultaneously devastating and genuinely funny, and a reading experience of the highest order

Hill is an engaging and reliable narrator of his own chaotic downfall, with plenty of charm to medicate the horror... his account is both eloquent and heartfelt

Beautifully written... searing, angry and comic

Harrowing but excruciatingly funny

[A] blazing debut... Electric from page one

Scabrously funny... Were his account a novel, you might accuse it of being too far-fetched

His remarkable, funny, arrestingly well-written memoir brings to mind Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels, but is also entirely, exhilaratingly its own thing

Original Sins is a memoir that reads like a novel; a brilliant one. Matt Rowland Hill's struggle to overcome the perfect storm of his upbringing and addiction makes for a great story, but it's the blend of artistry, wit and skilfully timed stabs of brutality that make it such a vivid and thrilling experience. It's not that I didn't want to put the book down, more that it wouldn't release me from its grip

Brilliant... lively, engaging and extremely well written - scrupulously, painfully honest... sharply funny

Daniel Hawksford provides a richly textured narration, conveying the absurdities of Hill's evangelical upbringing and the agony and chaos of his addiction... Original Sins is full of moments of dark farce