I Am, I Am, I Am

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As featured on desert island discs, big scottish book club and the zoe ball bookclub, a book of the year in the sunday times, the times, guardian, irish times, observer, red and the telegraph. *shortlisted for the pen ackerley prize for memoir and autobiography 2018* 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?