'Reading this little book feels like opening a window to let in air and light. It's filled with curious information and powerful feelings, and is humorous, sad, meditative and rapturous by turns - with ambiguous questions to be mulled and savoured.'
- Guardian
'A wittily macabre treatise about philosophy, creativity, connectivity, gratitude and bravely facing one's demise while living as well as possible in the meantime.'
- Financial Times
'A genial, discursive ramble of a book ... The tone throughout is Vonnegutian - bewildered, amused, quizzical - and if the book fails to deliver any startling philosophical breakthrough, that's rather the point, since it's more about the journey than the destination. A bit like life, then.'
- James Lovegrove, FT
''Poison for Breakfast is a strange, beguiling, beautiful book. No one else could have written it, or anything even a little like it. If Lemony Snicket didn't exist, we'd have to invent him.'
- Anthony McGowan, author of Lark
'Poison for Breakfast is a book to savour. Every sentence is perfectly balanced to surprise, delight, intrigue and, yes, bewilder the reader. A book about impending death which captures the simple, but profound, joys of being alive. I am a long-time Lemony Snicket fan and this is his best yet.'
- Sarah Hagger-Holt, author of Nothing Ever Happens Here
'Witty, clever and unsettling - it's Lemony Snicket at his finest, and bright minds that love dark delights will gobble it right up.'
- Rachel Delahaye, author of Mort the Meek