I've given it two stars because I did whizz through it and I found it interesting to a point. In my previous job I have interacted with some acutely mentally ill people, as well as at least one person who was a patient at Broadmoor, so I had some idea of what the place was like. The thing that downgraded this book for me was firstly, the misleading title - due to data protection you won't get up close and personal. You will in fact read things that you could have just googled - It's basically clickbait in book form. Secondly the writing wasn't great, it was quite repetitive, probably because due to the aforementioned issue the book needed to be filled with something. There's also a complete lack of accountability regarding the Jimmy Savile saga. There's a section where one reported female psychiatrist apparently says none of the patients were sexually assaulted by Savile when in actual fact they were and some really odd things were attributed to her that would not make sense for a mental health professional to say about Savile's reasons for choosing Broadmoor and about sexual abuse in general.

If you enjoy reading about the daily administration of a hospital and details of a documentary you haven't watched, this is the book for you. If not, then I'd probably give it a miss.