Thank you for the advanced copy.

I found this book fascinating on numerous levels and the sketches added another dimension. I did not realise at the start the depths this would go in to. Fear is all around us, it's inside us and yes fear is utilised - look at Brexit and the small boat issue in Dover - this is manipulated and versions that suit the narrative on red top newspapers are then fed into people's lives and become part of society's fears.

Highly recommended

The concept of this book was intriguing. Fear. It’s an emotion not many like to experience, myself included. I find memoirs hard to review because who am I to judge someone else’s life? Alas here I am judging someone. For me it fell flat. I wasn’t interested in what was being written, I didn’t connect with the emotions on the page. I felt they were surface level and didn’t hit me like I wanted. However, the sketches kept me going! I really enjoyed them.

It's possible to argue that we live in a society predicated on fear. Fear is utilised and manipulated by people in positions of power tp drive optics away from problems in society which have "unproductive" solutions. But these fears are often unfounded, as this book explores, based upon deep-seated prehistoric reactions to a world barely understood by our ancestors. We need to move beyond the politics of fear, and this book is one step in that journey.