Charlotte Raven (Author)
Charlotte Raven was a journalist in the 1990s and her columns and
articles have appeared frequently in the Guardian and New
Statesman. She was a contributor to the Modern Review, and editor
of the relaunched version in 1997. She lives in London.
Edward Wild (Author)
Professor Edward Wild is Professor of Neurology at University
College London, a Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital
for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London's Queen Square, and
Associate Director of UCL Huntington's Disease Centre.
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.
*Observer*
[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.
*Guardian*
A phenomenal achievement... [it] chronicles her journey into her
illness in a way that is truthful, traumatic and brave.
*The Times*
Brutally candid... [a] devastating but remarkable testament of
self-preservation.
*The Bookseller, Editor's Choice*
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.
*Peter Bradshaw*
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.
*Dr Rachel Clarke*
This is a deeply moving and profound memoir about facing the worst
in life - and continuing. Everyone should read it.
*Johann Hari*
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.
*Cornelia Parker*
A powerful account of living with Huntington's disease.
*Guardian*
[A] chatty, irreverent memoir... a surprisingly pithy and
entertaining read. The author's candour and self-depreciation make
her all the more likeable.
*UK Press Syndication*
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