A review by nikkideeley
Inside Broadmoor: Up close and personal with Britain's most dangerous criminals by Emma French, Jonathan Levi

2.0

This book had a couple of interesting details about Broadmoor, however I struggled to get through the book due to the poor writing. Firstly, I felt the book was a little mis-sold as it is more about the hospital itself opposed to the individuals houses there (‘up close and personal with Britain’s most dangerous criminals’ is inaccurate). Secondly, the book was repetitive, incoherent in parts with poor writing and editing. At multiple points the same sentence was repeated with slightly different wording (think: trying to get a word count up on an assignment you don’t care for!). Thirdly, the amount of times mental illness was referred to as being “mad” did not sit right with me at all.
Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this book, I’m sure there’s more informative books out there.