My Year Off By Robert McCrum

A publishers weekly best book 1998

• A meticulous and highly literary account, written by a gifted storyteller....a book difficult to lay aside until its final sentence has been reached.

Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die
New York Times

• Few of us can write in perfect health with the wit, skill, honesty and compassion that McCrum manages following a stroke.

Professor Anthony Clare

• With its lucid heartfelt prose, My Year Off gives voice to the millions of people who suffer strokes...More importantly, this book is a testament to the parallel trials and courage of the family members of stroke victims.

Abraham Verghese, New York Times Book Review

• McCrum's memoir is not only a story of courage and a serious warning to workaholics, it is also a love story.

Brian McArthur, The Times Book of the Year

• Not only a riveting account of his sudden illness, but of love being put under a real test: a heart-warming triumph both for author and Love.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Sunday Times Books of the Year

• You will know a great deal more about strokes if you read this book, and certainly a great deal more about love.

Elaine A. Zimbel, Toronto Globe and Mail

• One of the most stunning pieces of non-fiction to be published for quite a while...Has the zest and the effortless dramatic power of the highest kind of journalism. It deserves to be the biggest kind of bestseller.

Peter Craven, Sydney Morning Herald