Clarke grew up watching her dad practice medicine. ―Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm"Though a new medical memoir seems to come along every five minutes just now, this one is special." Also, hadn't she been a conflict-zone journalist? 1/ interesting and information about palliative care; 2/ other fascinating medical stories, many of them from A&E (I really enjoyed learning how a pacemaker works); 3/ episodes from the authors' own (interesting) autobiography; 4/ a tribute to the author's father. Publication date. The book should also be essential reading for anyone who cares about our beleaguered health system. I couldn’t put it down. A Doctor's Story of Love & Loss by Rachel Clarle (NEW Hardback) RRP £16.99 (MBS-Books only £12.97 with FREE P&P to all UK addresses) 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. ***Thank you NetGalley for the uncorrected proof copy***. There are no reviews yet. Call us on 0800 090 2309 for free bereavement support. There's exaggeration: a quite normal (for me) supermarket event (start Ch 10) is depicted as a kind of hellish experience -- we all talk like this occasionally, perhaps to try and sound witty, but it's still a bit over-stated. Please try again. Compassionate, fierce and apparently tireless, Rachel shares a great deal of herself and her patients with us and I was grateful for the honesty with which she approached this book. Anne Lamott, the beloved writer of memoirs including Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies, once said, “You own everything that happened to you.... As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. January 30th 2020 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. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss. Clarke is a tremendous writer who writes brilliantly and memorably. Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. This book is extraordinary in capturing and articulating the practicalities, the feelings of this profound and universal experience. Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss By Rachel Clarke (Author) Hardback £13.59 rrp £16.99 Save £3.40 (20%) Availability In Stock. This is such a beautifully written book. Please try your request again later. ―Stylist "A magnificent, tender book. Call us on 0800 090 2309 for free bereavement support. Leave Review. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable. The Cornstore, Middle Street, Galway, Ireland E-mail: info@charliebyrne.com Phone: (+353) 091 561766 Warehouse: (+353) 091 792404. A gripping, moving and uplifting autobiography. Very poignant and powerful read that will give much-needed perspective to all of us who haven't given my much thought to their own mortality or that of their loved ones. There are four threads, woven together into a naturally flowing story that hangs together very well. Buy it here . [ (are children usually the genuine sole intellectual authors and curators of those delightful drawings and words we see proudly pinned on the walls of schools and children’s hospitals?). Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. The bulk of the book, however, focuses on her work in a hospice as a palliative care physician and her experience of her beloved. 2:00pm. If only there were more people like Dr Rachel Clarke on this planet. This was good but potentially too autobiographical for my taste. As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. I will probably read it more than once. Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love, Loss and Consolation Rachel Clarke. “I work in a world that thrums with life”, and she loves it. She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty - Sunday Times. 4.3 out of 5 stars 249. 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