The Noonday Demon

The best book ever on depression. Andrew Solomon explains everything with a sharp, scientific clarity. – William Leith * Evening Standard *The history, treatment and even politics of depression are thoroughly covered… Solomon’s brutal honesty makes this the best account of depression I have ever read. – Chris Nancollas * Tablet *A mesmerising journey… magnificent * Observer *Extraordinary and redeeming… A work of great charm and individuality but also of impressive scholarship * Evening Standard *A lodestone work * Guardian *Few books are as powerful, as controversial or, at times, as wryly humorous… Poised to become a classic of our time: a key text for a generation that has depression at its core * Mail on Sunday *Fascinating and warm-hearted… Compelling, wide-ranging, open-minded, useful, a testimony of the mind’s power to overcome the most formidable obstacles and that offers hope to us all * The Times *A groundbreaking book… Eloquently impassioned, exhaustive * Daily Telegraph *

Andrew Solomon holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Cambridge; is a professor of psychology at Columbia University and President of PEN American Center; and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. A lecturer and activist, he is the author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, which won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other awards; and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been published in twenty-four languages. His TED talks have been viewed over 12 million times. A dual UK/US national, he lives in London and New York.

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