An interesting review in an on-line magazine called Scottish Review. The reviewer, Andrew Hook, clearly had no prior knowledge of ACEs or the extent of Scotland's ill health. http://www.scottishreview.net/AndrewHook410a.html

In the first of my two part review of this best-selling UK book I praise Darren McGarvey's independence of mind. I admire the way he uses his first hand experience of poverty and abuse to question the left's exclusive interest in structural economic factors. I think McGarvey is right to argue that economic change is important but that it is unlikely to happen soon. Meanwhile we must acknowledge that what people do as individuals has a major impact on their lives and their families.

I have written a two part review of a book which is currently a well-deserved publishing sensation in the UK - Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey. He grew up in a poor household with an abusive mother in a deprived community in Glasgow. He is now a rapper and political commentator. In the first part of my review I look at how he argues passionately for structural economic changes but also promotes the idea of personal responsibility. In t he second part I look at ACEs, toxic stress and ...