Fiction author Maggie O'Farrell writes a very different type of memoir. This one is about her moments over her life, when she has felt the touch of death or violence come close to her. Illness and incidents as a child, almost drowning as a teenager, to coming into close contact with a killer. With a few descriptive sentences she is able to capture the essence of being a teenager, the smells and sounds of a group gathered together of a Friday night in a seaside town.
Being an adult she still has some encounters that are scary, her description of a difficult childbirth made me hold my breath as did the final story when she talks about her daughter, fragile and at risk of anaphylaxis to a multitude of allergies.
The book itself did feel a bit disjointed to me, maybe because it was not in chronological order.
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Seventeen brushes with death? I think she is leading an unlucky life...
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