Engagingly written, informative, often funny’ - Daily Telegraph
‘Has the hard-boiled style of a Raymond Chandler novel’ - The Times
‘Think Oliver Sacks meets Gregory House, with a sprinkling of a hypochondriac’s worst nightmare’ - Sunday Times
Fascinating - Observer
Filled with patient histories and puzzling symptoms waiting to be understood, Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole is a detective novel, and despite his flapping white coat and squeaking Crocs, Ropper is Humphrey Bogart, cerebral yet tough and blessed with a terse wit. - Christian Donlan, New Statesman
In the hands of a lesser writer, this book might have been nothing more than a collection of colorful tales about the many ways a human brain can break down. But Dr. Ropper and Mr. Burrell manage to tell a more profound story about the value of men over machines. - New York Times