"A journalistic and sobering take on a divisive subject."--
The Economist "As scrupulous as journalism can be ... nuanced, ambiguous and, sadly, often disturbing"--
The New Statesman "A deeply reported, scrupulously non-judgmental account of the collapse of the NHS service, based on hundreds of hours of interviews with former clinicians and patients. It is also a jaw-dropping insight into failure: failure of leadership, of child safeguarding and of the NHS."--
Sunday Times "An exemplary and detailed analysis of a place whose doctors, Barnes writes, most commonly describe it as "mad". This is a powerful and disturbing book."--
Financial Times "Hannah Barnes's scrupulous research is a painful, important reminder that clinical care that promotes the wellbeing of young people experiencing gender incongruence and distress, and that protects their autonomy, cannot be built on ideological sands of ignorance, forgetting and silencing."--
Literary Supplement 
