The Shock of the Fall, book review (Nathan Filer)

A great little book this, recommended to me by a colleague at work and well worth a read. 

Told in the first person by Matthew, a young man who has been in and out of an institution, due to mental illness; it takes us through his teenage life, and teaches us what matters to him and what does not.
The author handles the subject of mental illness with a certain subtlety which I felt suited the book, and has a good balance of back story. As one progresses, the reader starts to understand some of the main character's angst towards his family, his doctors and his dead brother. 

Some aspects of the story I found a bit unrealistic (moving out of the family home into a rented flat at seventeen, with schizophrenia), and I couldn't work out if the author intended the reader to guess at the fact that Matthew was somehow involved in his brother death, or whether it was supposed to be a surprise. Rest assured it was not.
Overall I enjoyed this book and would happily recommend it, Three and half stars,