Alternatively contemplative and raucous, I Could Be Anyone takes us into the writer's experiences of growing up in a rigidly academic town and his involvement with seminal radical artists of the decade including Pink Floyd's creator, Syd Barrett. Scurfield describes and accentuates the feelings of isolation and disenfranchisement caused by the rigid conformity of major institutions. Walking home in his neighbourhood as a child past houses owned by the crème of academic society, Scurfield recalls the "inaccessibility and unfriendliness" of these castles of the literati; behind closed doors there lay a complex cycle of "academic one-upmanship"; an exclusive club which glorified those who could and subtly ostracised those who could not. From someone who spends much of his life in the outside lane, we get taken behind the mask for an inside look at yoga, acting, dyslexia and education in the psychological sense.