Going bald can scramble a man's self-esteem and leave those around them walking on eggshells. Stuart Heritage reveals the unvarnished truth about his own hair loss - and how he learnt to survive it
Sunday Times
It's excellent and should be read by vaguely vain men of all hair types including none
- Simon Usborne,
Speaking as a man who is getting too rapidly acquainted with the contours of my own skull, this book was a genuine tonic. And a very funny read.
- Nathan Filer, author of 'This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health',
Cards on the table, I'm not a bald man yet ... [and] Heritage fills me with renewed confidence about my future
- Hugo Rifkind, Times Radio
Very very funny [and] LOL-packed while also quite poignant and weird ... all things I like a lot in a book
- Jessica Dettmann, author of 'How to Be Second Best',
Stuart's head is made for baldness
- Larry David,
The funniest imaginable version of a grief memoir ... Heritage does what he does best: he lays on the laughs. Happily, all the wry self-deprecation packed into an appropriately thin volume serves a grander goal ... Heritage gives sensitivity scores to things people say to balding men. Managing to brilliantly unpack male vanity and insecurity, Bald stands ready to hold the hand of any vulnerable man who might otherwise fall into a pit of despair on the internet ... I'll never hear 'you have a nice-shaped head' the same way again
Guardian Book of the Day
The funniest book of the year - an extended rant on the terrible unfairness of male pattern baldness , and particularly how it has destroyed the life of one Stuart Heritage . It's deranged , and priceless , whether you are as bald as a coot , moving in that direction or merely spending every waking minute worrying about going bald (that covers most men). Larry David thought the book was very funny indeed and , as so often , he's spot on.
- Marcus Berkmann, Spectator
I love Stuart's constantly visible skull
- Robyn Wilder, author (and Stuart’s wife),
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Laugh-out-loud
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No one writes about the incidentals and the characteristics of British life better than Stuart Heritage
- Dolly Alderton,
The funniest book I've read this year ... Superb
- Will Storr,
Praise for Don't Be a Dick, Pete
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Really funny and crazy
- Bob Odenkirk,
Almost unfairly funny
- Hadley Freeman,
I loved it so much I read it in one fell swoop. Fantatically funny but also so touching
- India Knight,
The funniest book of the year
- Cosmopolitan,
Hilarious ... a touching take on modern masculinity and family
Grazia
This is (very, very) funny, but it's also a story about brothers and families and home, and it's as warm as it is rude
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