I Am I Am I Am'I Am, I Am, I Am' is Sunday Times bestseller and Costa Novel Award winner Maggie O'Farrell's electric and shocking memoir of the near death experiences that have punctuated her 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

It includes everything from fresh seafood to delicious pasta

gaining a deeper understanding of what matters to us all in the end

thoughts and opinions

a new Paddington adventure with real mail to open and enjoy

Lyra Belacqua

but also the community

as her album Blue topped music charts around the world

These women broke ground

from camaraderie to raw desperation

On a 1926 trip to Japan to search for new specimens

she encourages us all to stretch out a hand

beautiful tale of wonder and sibling love with echoes of Alice in Wonderland