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

I Am, I Am, I Am

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.

Praise for I Am, I Am, I Am

"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