I Am, I Am, I Am. Seventeen Brushes With Death

Maggie O’Farrell

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I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death experiences. Insightful, inspirational, gorgeously written, it is a book to be read at a sitting, a story you finish newly conscious of life's fragility, determined to make every heartbeat count.

A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. Shocking, electric, unforgettable, this is the extraordinary memoir from Costa Novel-Award winner and Sunday Timesbestselling author Maggie O'Farrell. It is a book to make you question yourself. What would you do if your life was in danger, and what would you stand to lose?

Review

If you want evidence that life can be just as dramatic as fiction, you couldn't wish for better than Maggie O'Farrell's stunning memoir -- Louise Doughty ― Guardian Books of the Year

Maggie O'Farrell is a highly accomplished author with seven novels to her name but she achieves something altogether more powerful and direct in this astonishing memoir... Each chapter is an accomplished piece of memoir writing in its own right. The cumulative effect is extraordinary and I felt my understanding of what it means to be a human and a mother grew. Where other writers may be playing with paper, O'Farrell takes up a bow and arrow and aims right at the human heart -- Cathy Rentzenbrink ― The Times

I have never read a book about death that has made me feel so alive. A heart-stopping, addictive read -- Tracy Chevalier

I adored every minute. A triumph -- Joanna Cannon

Extraordinary. A beautiful testament to courage and grace under fire without an ounce of self-pity -- Kate Mosse

It is absolutely, in every possible sense of the word, brilliant. It shines with wit and candour and insight. It is spectacularly moving, funny, impeccably controlled, artful and sincere. It's a gift -- Max Porter

By turns chilling, terrifying, deeply moving, funny, recognisable, wild, simple, complicated. A rich celebration -- Rachel Joyce

Quite simply astonishing... reminds the reader of the fierce joy of being alive. To my mind, I AM, I AM, I AM is Maggie O'Farrell's greatest work to date ― Louise O'Neill

The final chapter is one of the boldest and most terrifying things I have read this year ― Scotsman

She is a breathtakingly good writer, and brings all her elegance and poise as a novelist to the story of her own life ― Guardian

Leaves the reader feeling breathless, grateful and fully alive. Maggie O'Farrell is a miracle in every sense. I will never forget this book -- Ann Patchett

[An] extraordinary memoir... uncomfortable and compelling... fluent, poised, packed with colourful details ― Observer

About the Author

Maggie O'Farrell, FRSOL, is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE., and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT. She is also the author of two books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO and THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK. She lives in Edinburgh.

Podrobnosti

Autor	Maggie O’Farrell
Vydavatel	Tinder Press
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	měkká
Počet stran	304
Formát	12,8 × 19,6 cm
EAN	9781472240767
Rok vydání	2018
Edice	Biografie, memoáry, osobnosti Zdraví a životní styl