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Dear Life
- A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss
- Narrated by: Rachel Clarke
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Dear Life
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Publisher's Summary
'Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness' Guardian
'She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty' Sunday Times
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal memoir that finds light and love in the darkest of places.
As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable.
Rachel's training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She learned that nothing - even the best palliative care - can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you love.
And yet, she argues, in a hospice there is more of what matters in life - more love, more strength, more kindness, more joy, more tenderness, more grace, more compassion - than you could ever imagine. For if there is a difference between people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it is simply this: that the terminally ill know their time is running out, while we live as though we have all the time in the world.
Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself.
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- Denyse
- 27-06-2020
Dear Life...Everyone Needs To Listen & Learn About Love & Care.
I chose this book by Dr Rachel Clarke after reading extraordinary reviews on-line where it was published.
As someone at the older end of the listener group, 70, and having been diagnosed with cancer 3 years ago, I wanted to know more about grief, palliative care and the stories from a doctor who in the first part of her life, chose to go down the journalism road...only to return and become a doctor. Like her Dad. This is also one of the most touching life stories I have read/heard and Rachel’s narration throughout helps add the love, care and sadness to the dealing with patients and families in palliative care. None of this, however, prepares her for her father’s cancer diagnosis. Do listen to this book..and learn as I did.
Wholeheartedly learned from and loved this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-09-2020
Timely, relevant and wonderful
Dear Life will make you laugh, cry and perhaps change the way you think about death.
You will need tissues.
This book is magnificent .... read it.
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