I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

“This is a brilliantly constructed book because you’re reading it and thinking, ‘Can you just stop taking so many risks? 17 brushes with death and you think, well, you keep jumping into the sea, walking on your own, hitchhiking in dangerous areas, why do you keep taking all these risks?’…Maggie O’Farrell also describes how terrible miscarriage is. People talk about that more now, but even a few years ago people did not talk about miscarriage and stillbirth” Read more...

Five Memoirs by Women

Dorothy Byrne, Journalist