Bibliograph

I am, I am, I am, seventeen brushes with death, a memoir, Maggie O'Farrell

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Label

I am, I am, I am, seventeen brushes with death, a memoir, Maggie O'Farrell

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

mixed forms

Main title

I am, I am, I am

Oclc number

1019834396

Responsibility statement

Maggie O'Farrell

Sub title

seventeen brushes with death, a memoir

Summary

An extraordinarily intimate memoir of the near death experiences that have made Maggie O'Farrell the woman and the writer she is today. 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. This is a memoir with a difference: seventeen encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal to us a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. It is a book to make you question yourself: what would you do if your life was in danger? How would you react? And what would you stand to lose?

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