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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

By: Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by: Daisy Donovan
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As selected for the Zoe Ball Bookclub, a Book of the Year in The Sunday Times, The Times, Guardian, Irish Times, Observer, Red and The Telegraph.

I Am, I Am, I Am is a memoir with a difference - the enthralling story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death experiences. Insightful, inspirational, 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 Times best-selling 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?

I Am, I Am, I Am will speak to readers who loved Cheryl Strayed's Wild or Max Porter's Grief is the Thing with Feathers.

©2017 Maggie O'Farrell (P)2017 Headline Publishing Group Ltd Heartfelt Memoir Near-Death Experience
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I can't wait to listen again. So good. Each chapter a new story. i just loved this. My second Maggie O'Farrell both so human.

Brilliant in every way

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Loved it! What a book! Each chapter introduces a different time and age of the author and her brushes with death, it was all so fascinating and written in such a way that you are kept wondering how each situation ended. Beautifully performed.

amazing book

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Such a heart wrenching story narrated perfectly for the prose. After loving Hamnet I’m so pleased I reached for this one.

Beautiful narration

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If you read only one book in your life, read this one. So relatable. So poetic. So affirming. Tears still in my eyes.

Beautifully written so moving

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Beautifully narrated. This has got to be one of the best books I have ever read.
Such a searing account of the author's encounters with death.
And the anguish and pain of parenting a child whose life is spent skirting the perimeter of death .A mother whose life is dominated by risk assessment and hypervigilance
I can't recommend this book enough

outstanding!

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