Maggie O’Farrell is a gifted writer – and someone who has been quite lucky to evade death on multiple occasions. In this memoir, O’Farrell takes 17 incidents where she or her children come close death – through anaphylaxis, encephalitis, rash decisions made in youth or even later, as a parent. She explores how each occasion gave her insight into her own mortality, and what it meant for her as a person. When she wrote this book, she was around the age I am now, in […]
“… slipping through loopholes, unaware of when the axe may fall.”
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell