A really insightful book that allowed me to see how the staff view the surreal life in Broadmoor. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.

Very easy read! Loved this book gets straight to the point and is enjoyable. Learned a lot more about the hospital than i knew already! Information in each chapter doesn’t often relate to the title of the chapter but still good!

Some excellent and fascinating insights. However I’d describe the structure used by the author(s) as ‘interesting.’

I have always been interested in this subject, so I bought this book recently. I used to have a friend who lived near there, so this has always been a special interest for me. However, I found this book incoherent, and almost impossible to read. It was extremely badly-written, it kept jumping around all over the place and seemed to lack structure. It was also full of factual inaccuracies and other errors, to the point where I didn't know whether what I was reading was fact or fiction. The book was very inaccurate in its facts, and there were also no photos of Broadmoor in the book, which I thought was odd. Usually, a book on a subject like this would have photos, to give the book some context and so that the reader could actually see what the authors were talking about, as opposed to just reading a description. There are some pictures on the front cover of some of Broadmoor's most notorious patients, but there was very little of interest about them in the book, and I didn't feel as though I learned anything new about any of them. In fact, the only one that had a half-decent chapter about them was Ronnie Kray. There were also quite a few references to the 2014 TV series that the book was based on, but those parts of the book were meaningless to anyone who hadn't seen the series. I did see that, and I actually learned more from that than I did from reading this book. To sum up, if you are interested in Broadmoor and you are considering purchasing this book, don't bother. You will only be angry at yourself for wasting your time and money on such an amateurish and badly-written book, which promises much but actually delivers very little. My advice is to leave this book on the shelf and watch the 2014 TV series on Youtube. You will learn a lot more from watching that, as I did. A very poor effort. The publishers of this book should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for allowing this to be published. This book badly needed a decent proof-reader and editor, which are sadly lacking here. The authors should be ashamed too.

The content in this book is good, and the synopsis made it sound really interesting, but its written in such a way that is really off putting. The authors have interviewed patients from inside Broadmoor but rather than give us good chunks of interview we get the same 4 quotes repeated multiple times in the same chapter for no particular reason. The authors mention the most infamous patients, and then when telling you about them have a paragraph in one chapter, a paragraph in another etc. which just feels jumbled. Large font to disguise the fact that there is barely anything written that has substance. If it was written better the content would be brilliant, the last two chapters were really interesting but its a shame they weren't all that way.