I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death

The Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling memoir from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT

With an introduction by Ann Patchett

⭐AS FEATURED ON: DESERT ISLAND DISCS, BIG SCOTTISH BOOK CLUB, THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB

⭐ A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH

⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018

'O'Farrell takes up a bow and arrow and aims right at the human heart' The Times

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I Am, I Am, I Am is novelist Maggie O'Farrell's unputdownable story of a life told in near-death experiences. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. An ongoing struggle to protect a child from a condition that leaves her daily vulnerable.

Insightful, inspirational, gorgeously written, it is a book to devour at a sitting - a story you finish newly conscious of life's fragility, determined to make every heartbeat count.

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'Leaves the reader feeling breathless, grateful and fully alive' Ann Patchett

'A rare talent to enthral... It will leave you bereft and wanting more' Sunday Times

'It is absolutely, in every possible sense of the word, brilliant' Max Porter

'I have never read a book about death that has made me feel so alive' Tracy Chevalier

Pages: 304

Publication year: 2025