Too High, Too Far, Too Soon

A memoir of a man who survived childhood tragedy, Catholic boarding school and chronic drug addiction. It details the author's experience of teenage angst in a tatty seaside town before he ran away to London and then onwards to the crack-infested streets of LA.

Simon Mason has been clean and sober since June 2006 and lives in Stoke Newington, where he can often be found playing with his daughter in Clissold Park. He continues to perform, in a band consisting entirely of musicians in recovery, called The Should Be Deads, and has discovered his vocal qualities have improved since he stopped using booze and drugs. He still has no idea what he wants to be when he grows up.