I am, I am, I am

By Maggie O'Farrell

I'm so pleased I joined the two book clubs I did last year. I've met some great people I otherwise would never have really known. One of those friends recommended this book to me. It reads a chapter after chapter of close encounters with death. It begins with teenager on a lonely wilderness track narrowly avoiding a man making uncomfortable-advances and later discovering the same guy had throttled a young girl with a binocular strap on the same stretch some weeks later. 

Synopsis

I AM, I AM, I AM is Maggie O'Farrell's electric and shocking memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated her life. The childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape the nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in a understaffed hospital. 

This is a memoir with a difference: seventeen encounters with Maggieat different ages, in different locations, reveal to us a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. Spare, elegant and utterly candid, 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? 

I AM, I AM, I AM is a book you will finish newly conscious of your own vulnerability and determined to make every heartbeat count. 

Author

Maggie O'Farrell is a Northern Irish novelist. Her book The Hand That First Held Mine won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She appeared in Waterstones'25 Authors for the Future.

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Other Books

After You'd Gone (2000)
My Lover's Lover (2002)
The Distance Between Us (2004)
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2007)
The Hand That First Held Mine (2010)
Instructions for a Heatwave (2013)
This Must Be the Place (2016) 
I Am, I Am, I Am (2017)