Vagabond's Breakfast, The - Tapa blanda

Best book I have read so far this year. On a par with Hilary Mantel or Joan Didion. Utterly terrifying, funny, thought provoking and seemingly without an ounce of self-pity. A masterpiece. --Scott Pack

An enthralling memoir of a young man going deeply and terribly astray. --Tessa Hadley in the London Review of Books.

A jagged tale gracefully told. Full of humane surreality, there s something whole, even holistic, about the brokenness of the life it pieces (back) together. --Patrick McGuinness in the TLS

In 2006, Richard Gwyn was given a year to live unless a suitable liver donor were found. A novelist and poet, he lost nine years of his life to vagrancy and alcoholism. This memoir is an account of his 'lost' years.