Dear Life
A Doctor's Story of Love, Loss and Consolation
$25.85
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2020
Summary
Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award
‘What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It brought me often to laughter and - several times - to tears. It sings with joy and kindness’ Robert Macfarlane
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal memoir that finds light and love in the darkest of places.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349143934 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349143935 |
| Author: | Rachel Clarke |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Dilly's Story |
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Critics Review
This is a wonderful book. Rachel takes the worst life can throw at us and shows us the beauty in it
A truly wonderful book. Read itHeart-wrenchingly tender - ObserverShe writes with a tender, lyrical beauty - Sunday TimesHer words are brimful of love, grace and kindness - GuardianAbout The Author
Rachel Clarke
Dr Rachel Clarke is an NHS palliative care doctor and the author of four Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction books. Her most recent book, The Story of a Heart (2024), won the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
Breathtaking (2021), which details her and her colleagues’ experiences during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, was adapted into a television series broadcast on ITV in 2024. Dear Life (2020), a depiction of her work in an NHS hospice, was shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Biography Award and long-listed for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize.
Before entering medical school, Rachel worked as a broadcast journalist, producing and directing current affairs documentaries on topics including Al Qaeda, the Iraq War, and the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
She continues to write for publications such as the Guardian, Sunday Times, New Statesman, and The Lancet, and frequently appears on television and radio. Inspired by a visit to Ukraine during the conflict in late 2022, Rachel founded Hospice Ukraine, a UK-registered charity supporting local palliative care teams in Ukraine.
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