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A masterpiece, striking a perfect balance between the metaphysical, physical, emotional and institutional aspects of serious illness. What makes it extraordinary is not only the brilliance of the writing but also the profundity of Ann Drysdale's love for this man… the balance between love and fear, distance and closeness, observation and empathy, humour and despair …something very rare in literature: great art that is also persuasive advocacy on a matter of the most urgent practical concern.

Raymond Tallis

An extraordinary account of an all too ordinary experience: the treatment in hospital of an elderly man afflicted with cancer. At heart, this is a love story, told in lucid prose and poetry of often corrosive honesty …reading it is a unique experience.

Herbert Williams

An extraordinarily moving work. The humiliations and fears are confronted with both painful clear-sightedness and saving humour; the moods are sometimes angry, sometimes loving, sometimes forlorn. It is a powerful indictment of the dehumanising system that is the NHS and of its broken promises. But it is also a record of the conspiratorial generosity extended by individuals within the system. In Three-three, two-two, five-six the poetry is not in the pity, certainly not in any kind of self-pity; it is created rather in the felt tension between human vulnerability and human dignity. This powerful work, beautifully crafted and judged, adds a new range and depth to the already considerable accomplishment of Ann Drysdale’s earlier work.

Glyn Pursglove

School refusal, sometimes called ‘school phobia’ is a complex and often contentious issue effecting rising numbers of children, but coping with this issue can tear families apart and leave lasting effects on children. In Can’t Go, Won’t Go Mike Fortune-Wood looks at the scale of the problem and how families are treated by a range of statutory authorities. Interspersed with moving accounts from families who have struggled with school refusal, sometimes over a decade or more, this important and ground-breaking book sign-posts the need for better communication and strategies from service providers from schools to psychologists and suggests that the current trend to either medicalise or demonise children who refusing to go to school will only add to society’s problems as well as damaging the individuals concerned. He also documents an alternative approach; that of removing children from school to home educate them, suggesting that far from leading to disaster (as professionals often predict) this can become a life enhancing decision.

This is the best kind of engaged research; full of information and meticulous in its willingness to analyse a problem fully, but also humane and helpful.

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Packed with practical insight into how to live well with our children and how to find solutions that don't involve cycles of conflict or degenerate into hurting children or sacrificing parents. This is the most optimistic and achievable parenting book you will ever read.