Mayhem

Fierce, lyrical, and lucid memoir

Siri Hustvedt

A profoundly articulate and harrowing memoir of a family grappling with addiction... I was impressed and moved

A. M. Homes

A short, intense and moving memoir... a poignant and at times harrowing account that testifies to the resilience of the human spirit

Tatler

Powerful and spare... her elisions and prevarications have a striking effect

The Observer

Such a unique and haunting story to tell

The Sunday Times

What gives this book its astonishing power is not the guilt, but the intelligence and literary skill. Beautifully structured... Rausing sets the scene with painterly delicacy and then steps back to analyse the implications of what she has revealed

The Guardian

A deeply felt memorial to a lost brother...a finely written memoir

Literary Review

Riveting, clear-sighted and exceptionally articulate...heartbreaking...her literary and psychoanalytic fluency gives the book an impact that feels arrestingly honest

Daily Telegraph

Touched by its bravery, sincerity and the frequent beauty of the writing

The Times

In this slim, stoic memoir... Rausing thoughtfully, painstakingly, works a deep groove into the stubborn surface of certain bedevilling questions: "How do you write about addiction?"... I nodded and sometimes cried. I wanted to invite the author over for tea

The Millions

Publisher's description. A courageous and clear-sighted memoir about addiction and its terrible repercussions within a family. In 2012, Hans Rausing, heir to the vast Tetrapak fortune, was pulled over by the police while driving erratically across Wandsworth Bridge. What those police officers eventually found would shock the world...

Penguin