Dear Life
A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
Add to basket failed.
Please try again later
Add to Wish List failed.
Please try again later
Remove from Wish List failed.
Please try again later
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
1 credit a month to buy any audiobook in our entire collection.
Access to thousands of additional audiobooks and Originals from the Plus Catalogue.
Member-only deals & discounts.
Auto-renews at $16.45/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
Dear Life
Narrated by:
Rachel Clarke
Buy Now for $26.99
-
Narrated by:
-
Rachel Clarke
-
By:
-
Rachel Clarke
About this listen
'Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness' Guardian
'She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty' Sunday Times
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal memoir that finds light and love in the darkest of places.
As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable.
Rachel's training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She learned that nothing - even the best palliative care - can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you love.
And yet, she argues, in a hospice there is more of what matters in life - more love, more strength, more kindness, more joy, more tenderness, more grace, more compassion - than you could ever imagine. For if there is a difference between people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it is simply this: that the terminally ill know their time is running out, while we live as though we have all the time in the world.
Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself.©2020 Rachel Clarke (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK
As someone at the older end of the listener group, 70, and having been diagnosed with cancer 3 years ago, I wanted to know more about grief, palliative care and the stories from a doctor who in the first part of her life, chose to go down the journalism road...only to return and become a doctor. Like her Dad. This is also one of the most touching life stories I have read/heard and Rachel’s narration throughout helps add the love, care and sadness to the dealing with patients and families in palliative care. None of this, however, prepares her for her father’s cancer diagnosis. Do listen to this book..and learn as I did.
Wholeheartedly learned from and loved this book.
Dear Life...Everyone Needs To Listen & Learn About Love & Care.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You will need tissues.
This book is magnificent .... read it.
Timely, relevant and wonderful
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.