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Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell - a Sunday Times best-seller and a Costa Novel Awards winner - chats to Simon about her new memoir 'I Am, I Am, I Am'.

Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell - a Sunday Times best-seller and a Costa Novel Awards winner - chats to Simon about her new memoir 'I Am, I Am, I Am'.

The book has been described as an electric and shocking memoir of the near death experiences that have punctuated Maggie's life. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital.

This is a memoir with a difference: seventeen encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal to us a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. It is a book to make you question yourself: what would you do if your life was in danger? How would you react? And what would you stand to lose?

1 hour, 55 minutes

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Wed 30 Aug 2017 17:05
成人快手 Radio 2

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  • Wed 30 Aug 2017 17:05
    成人快手 Radio 2