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Radio 4,2 mins

"Although the subtitle is 'Seventeen Brushes With Death', for me the book is really about life"

Woman's Hour

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Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell has written a memoir composed of seventeen brushes with death. 'I Am, I Am, I Am' has the author looking at near-death experiences as a way of looking at the vulnerability of life and the determination to make every moment count.

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