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Biographical note
Oliver James trained and practised as a child clinical psychologist and, since 1987, has worked as a writer, journalist and television documentary producer and presenter. His books include Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture, the bestselling They F*** You Up and Britain on the Couch, which was also a successful documentary series for Channel 4. He is a trustee of two children's charities: the National Family and Parenting Institute and Homestart.Oliver James is excellent at showing why social scientists think that the surge in material affluence can produce the opposite of happiness.
- Avner Offer, Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford,
Should be mandatory reading for everyone
- Will Self,
Never before have I read a book that so precisely captures the way we are all being emotionally snookered by the demands of 21st-century living... read this book
- Jeremy Vine,
A wonderfully clear and cogent thesis
Guardian
An absorbing and effective wake-up call
London Lite
as Oliver James's very important book demonstrates...he has thought about the problem a lot and he approaches it in a very winning fashion...he is consistently engaging in both his apercus and his occasionally eccentric asides
- Nick Lezard, The Guardian