Raw and powerful … It's strictly categorised as a memoir, but Young attempts something much more formally daring … Remarkable

Observer

Inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consistently entertaining

New York Times

Uncompromising. Page after page slices close to the bone with both stylistic and structural swagger

Elliot Ackerman, author of Green on Blue

By turns hilarious and wrenching – and shot through with moments of piercing wisdom – Eat the Apple casts a kind of hypnotic spell that holds the reader until the last page ... Read this book

Scott Anderson, author of Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Matt Young has written the Iliad of the Iraq war – searing as the desert sun, powerful as a rocket-propelled grenade ... This book will strengthen your heart and soul

Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award

A standout ... Fresh, invigorating, and brutally honest in a scorched-earth kind of way. Eat the Apple scrapes the landscape of memory raw until it bleeds, and that's what puts it head and shoulders above the rest of the crowd

David Abrams, author of Fobbit