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

Written by Maggie O'Farrell

Narrated by Daisy Donovan

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An extraordinary memoir—told entirely in near-death experiences—from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.

We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death.

I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter—for whom this book was written—from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers.

Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained emotion, O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty, and mysteries of life itself.

Editor's Note

Breathtaking…

Fans of “When Breath Becomes Air” will find much to love in this breathtaking book. It’s as much a memoir as a reflection on the relationship between near-death and searing life.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 6, 2018
ISBN9780525588801
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
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Maggie O'Farrell

MAGGIE O'FARRELL was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include The Marriage Portrait, Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), After You'd Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine, and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written a memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. She lives in Edinburgh.

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    Gut wrenching, raw, love filled, painful to hear but i am richer for the experience.

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    This books mad me realize that through all of my trials and tribulations in my lifetime, I am one of the lucky ones. Wow.
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    incredible, heartwrenching and courageous
    Beautifully read with stunning emotion
    thank you so much!
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    it gives me many experiences.love it so much!that a beautiful story thanks so much
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    A reminder of the price that parents,
    chronically ill children and all who know them, love them, and are with them in one way or another pay”...with pain, love, care, and resignation and a great degree of of helplessness. Made me want to cry.