Metamorphosis and Other Stories

A beautiful and devastating portrayal of a life-changing diagnosis... It is what the best writing should be: a book that will stay with you for life.

Natalie Haynes, author of A Thousand Ships

A pitch-perfect memoir: stylish, erudite, touchingly honest and darkly funny.

Jacqueline Wilson, author of The Story of Tracy Beaker

Metamorphosis is the best book I have read about multiple sclerosis, and that is because it is about so much more... It is simply a beautiful piece of writing.

The Times

An outstanding feat of bravery and brio... A buoyantly written, piercingly perceptive book.

Sunday Times

A brilliant account of one man's tilted world following a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.

Observer

For all its grim subject the book is an unexpected delight.

Literary Review

Level-headed and informative... What Douglas-Fairhurst gives us isn't just the story of an illness but a story about the importance of stories.

Guardian

Heartening and unexpectedly gripping... An immensely powerful book... It persuasively builds the case for the ability of stories to offer hope and solace; to help us become ourselves, over and over, even in extremis.

Spectator

Douglas-Fairhurst has written a memoir that is not miserable. It's funny and raw... Magical: pages speed by, fuelled by the author's formidable intellect.

Financial Times, *Book of the Week*

Written by an entertaining storyteller and offers a rare insight into a situation that few people will have to face, but that it does us good to contemplate.

Mail on Sunday

While this book deals with distress, physical pain and uncertainty, its wry humour and lightness of touch make it anything but a misery memoir... Superb.

Times Literary Supplement

A richly textured and syncopated book, alternately erudite and irreverent.

London Review of Books

A complex, tender meditation on art, family and resistance.

Skinny

Metamorphosis is told in such blackly comic style that you can't help chuckling.

Good Housekeeping

The writing is all elegance and wit.

The Times, *2023's Top 50 Non-Fiction Books*

An account of living with multiple sclerosis that is both deeply literary and painfully honest as it charts his journey into ill health.

Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2023*

He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him

Vladimir Nabokov

I think of a Kafka story as a perfect work of literary art, as approachable as it is strange, and as strange as it is approachable

Michael Hofmann