At the age of 12, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian mansion with the family and patients of an unorthodox and sometimes frightening doctor. In this house there were no rules, only chaos: Valium was knocked back like Pez, the Christmas tree stayed up until May and a vintage electroshock therapy machine lurked under the stairs. Running with Scissors is the compelling, moving and hysterically funny account of a boy
