A very important book -- Bessel van der Kolk * Financial Times *
Compelling, readable - and incredibly chilling . . . a terrifying assessment of the digital carnage . . . remarkably persuasive . . . a clarion-call to parents everywhere -- Lucy Denyer * Telegraph *
Deals seriously with counter-arguments and gaps in the evidence . . . all the suggestions sound sensible. Some even sound fun * Economist *
A game-changer for society . . . The statistics that Haidt offers are jaw-dropping . . . although this book is about young people, it will resonate with many of us . . . I can't recommend this book highly enough; everyone should read it -- Stella O'Malley * Irish Independent *
A book of devastating observations . . . his data is startling . . . robust scientific evidence for what we've all come to assume is true . . . it's the sheer scale of harm depicted here that should galvanise us -- Simon Ings * Spectator *
Forget horror; this is one of the most terrifying books I have read . . . some of the statistics Haidt quotes are truly shocking . . . a persuasive and rousing argument -- Anna Davis * Evening Standard *
If this important book rings enough alarms to make politicians impose a genuine social media ban on children, I believe most parents would be happy and most teenagers happier * The Times, Book of the Week *
Urgent and essential . . . it ought to become a foundational text for the growing movement to keep smartphones out of schools, and young children off social media -- Sophie McBain * Guardian *
Lucid, memorable, galvanizing -- Meghan Cox Gurdon * Wall Street Journal *
Erudite, engaging, crusading -- Tracy Dennis-Tiwary * New York Times Book Review *