My Name Is...

A gripping account of an alcoholic teenage girl

Guardian

It is a sad and terrifying story, well-researched and timely… Campbell’s idea of telling the story through the self-contained testimonies of every person who came into contact with Hannah during her spiral into self-harm is clever and affords the reader a 360 degree view of what it is to deal with a vulnerable deceitful alcoholic in denial… Campbell has taken the vilified, sprawling, drunken youths caricatured in tabloid headlines and, in one young girl, showed us the damaged human beings beneath. For that he deserves much credit.

The Times (Saturday Review)

My Name Is... offers a compelling insight into addiction from the outside in, giving a 360-degree look at the cause and effect of the illness. It possesses an emotional weight for each speaker — an impressive feat when some of these characters feature for less than four pages.

Irish Examiner

The tenacity Campbell brought to bear in politics is matched here by his gripping inhabitation of his characters. Stunning,

Independent on Sunday

There is a touching candid quality about the characters in My Name Is… each one speaks with a breathtaking honesty, no matter how unsavoury or damaging it might be to hear

Nottingham Post

This is not a quasi-misery memoir. Instead, each chapter is told from the perspective of someone who crosses paths with the troubled teenager. There are 23 of these before the final, achingly sad missive from Hannah herself, which means a lot of characters to get through. But on the whole Campbell succeeds in allowing Hannah’s family, friends and, later, psychiatrists and magistrates, to tell her story.

Ben East, Observer

This superb book is sad, terrifying and uplifting in equal measure. Every parent, every young man or woman, and anyone who "likes a drink" should read it.

Anne Robinson