Product Description
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Author: Maggie O'Farrell
Format: Paperback
The Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling memoir from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
⭐ A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH
With an introduction by Ann Patchett.
⭐AS FEATURED ON: DESERT ISLAND DISCS, BIG SCOTTISH BOOK CLUB, THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB
⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018
I Am, I Am, I Am is novelist Maggie O’Farrell’s unputdownable story of a life told in near-death experiences. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. An ongoing struggle to protect a child from a condition that leaves her daily vulnerable.
Insightful, inspirational, gorgeously written, it is a book to devour at a sitting – a story you finish newly conscious of life’s fragility, determined to make every heartbeat count.
‘O’Farrell takes up a bow and arrow and aims right at the human heart’ — The Times
‘Leaves the reader feeling breathless, grateful and fully alive’ — Ann Patchett
‘A rare talent to enthral… It will leave you bereft and wanting more’ — Sunday Times
‘It is absolutely, in every possible sense of the word, brilliant’ — Max Porter
‘I have never read a book about death that has made me feel so alive’ — Tracy Chevalier
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