Title: I am, I am, I am
Description: An extraordinarily intimate memoir of the near death experiences that have made Maggie O'Farrell the woman and the writer she is today. 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. This is a memoir with a difference: seventeen encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal to us a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. It is a book to make you question yourself: what would you do if your life was in danger? How would you react? And what would you stand to lose?
Subjects: Irish Novelists, Biography, New York Times reviewed, Authors, biography, Near-death experiences, Large type books, Death, Anecdotes, Authors, irish, English literature
People: Maggie O'Farrell (1972-)
Time periods: 20th century