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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
- Narrated by: Daisy Donovan
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-07-2022
Brilliant in every way
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.
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- Mrs. A.M. Andrew
- 04-09-2017
Captivating
This memoir is beautifully written and read. It is a gripping account of life and near death on too many occasions for one life.
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- jude13
- 03-03-2019
amazing book
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-07-2023
Beautiful narration
Such a heart wrenching story narrated perfectly for the prose. After loving Hamnet I’m so pleased I reached for this one.
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- Cassandra
- 20-11-2017
Beautifully written so moving
If you read only one book in your life, read this one. So relatable. So poetic. So affirming. Tears still in my eyes.
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- petra
- 06-04-2021
outstanding!
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
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- Robintrel
- 01-10-2022
A riveting and moving memoir
This wonderful memoir presents a selection of thematically linked events from the author’s life. The non linear structure allows ideas and insights to emerge in layers, and it is only towards the end that there is overt commentary on what, from the author’s perspective, it all means. The subtitle forewarns that this will be an intense listen, but Maggie O’Farrell’s sure narrative touch ensured that I did not feel bombarded. That said, there are topics here that may be triggering, and I found myself sobbing at times. For me, this was something for which I feel grateful.
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- Paddington
- 15-05-2022
Topic not good in Covid
This book was a bad choice I made during the restrictions of Covid and so much illness & death around us. The topic was depressing for me.
However, it is well written by this talented author. I need to be more careful researching topics in future.
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- Valerie
- 27-07-2023
Superb
Beautifully written and wonderfully read. This was a unique and delightful memoir. Highly recommend it
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- Anne
- 07-08-2023
Genius
Engaging, visceral, shocking, funny, tense, liberating, unique and exquisitely written. Daily Donovan’s narration is a masterclass.
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