As usual, Maggie O'Farrell's writing style is sublime, she could write a shopping list and I'd read it, fascinated.
This latest book by her is a sort of a memoir where she tells her life story through accidents, illnesses or near misses where she or her kids could have died.
It is very interesting in points to reflect on choices and how they effect your life, and destiny and what you do to survive. In another points it is a bit of a stretch to talk about a near death experience, in my view.
Overall quite curios, unusual and I feel so lucky not to have had any of the issues she has had in her life, which seems quite a lot for one person!
Overall rating: 6,5 Plot: NA Writing style: 7,5 Cover: 7
Title: I am, I am, I am
The Plot:
I am, I am, I am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death experiences. Insightful, inspirational, intelligent, it is a book to be read at a sitting, 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 bestselling 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?
The Author:
Maggie O’Farrell is the author of seven novels, AFTER YOU’D GONE, MY LOVER’S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. She lives in Edinburgh.
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