Dear Life
A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss - Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award
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Dear Life
Narrateur(s):
Rachel Clarke
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Narrateur(s):
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Rachel Clarke
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Rachel Clarke
'Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness' Guardian
'She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty' Sunday Times
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.
As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable.
Rachel's training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She learned that nothing - even the best palliative care - can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you love.
And yet, she argues, in a hospice there is more of what matters in life - more love, more strength, more kindness, more joy, more tenderness, more grace, more compassion - than you could ever imagine. For if there is a difference between people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it is simply this: that the terminally ill know their time is running out, while we live as though we have all the time in the world.
Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself.©2020 Rachel Clarke
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Ce que les critiques en disent
This is a wonderful book. Rachel takes the worst life can throw at us and shows us the beauty in it
What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It sings with joy and kindness
A truly wonderful book. Read it
A truly beautiful book about death and life and the price of love. Told by a doctor, with compassion and wisdom. I cried, but they were warm, comforting tears. It made me think about stuff I fear in a new and better way
Moving, thought-provoking and so very important. I'm immeasurably grateful to have read it, and it will stay with me. In death, we learn about life
A touching and profound meditation on what it means to be human . . . it is a remarkable book
Dear Life names the tension between love and risk that gives life its sweetness. It takes readers to the edge of life in supportive, wise company
Heart-wrenchingly tender
She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty
Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness
A magnificent, tender book
Moving . . . an honest account from the front line of death
An enthralling and deeply affecting book . . . It is [the] blend of the personal and professional that makes Dear Life so special
Honest, clear-sighted and immensely wise, Clarke's book is laced with loss, yet raises a jubilant toast to life
A heartbreaking, exhilarating read
Arguably the most remarkable book of the year
An NHS doctor interweaves heartwarming stories of palliative care for patients in a hospice with memories of her beloved GP father
Rachel Clarke weaves together an account of her training as a doctor who came to specialise in palliative care, the stories of her patients, and her father's death in Dear Life. I read it while coming to terms with the death of a family friend, and found it full of honesty and tender wisdom about life and the process of dying. It managed the brilliant and paradoxical feat of helping you love life a little more and fear death a little less (Matt Haig)
This astonishing book by Dr Clarke will make you re-evaluate your own life and priorities. This is a deeply moving read
Compassionate, heartfelt and deeply life-affirming
Nowhere is this account do we get the cynicism or dark humor of Adam Kay or the perfunctory medical assembly line language of Samuel Shem although somewhat surprisingly Clarke quotes the latter in one of her chapter headings. The author is a talented writer and I lost count of the number of times I cried during listening. As a narrator her English voice is a delight other than a slight tendency for a descending inflection at the end of sentences which some listeners may find mildly irritating.
Overall I loved this book and would strongly recommend it to high school students wishing to embark on a medical career, med students and doctors in training and terminal patients and their relatives. This is not a self help book by any stretch and there are now plenty of those on the market because the conversations around death have broadened as many countries consider MAID (medical assistance in dying) type legislation (now well established here in Canada). The author does give some useful resources in an appendix at the end which contains some very laborious website URL dictations but these are a little UK-centric understandably.
Interestingly the author declines to give her opinion on MAID in a well reasoned argument although the attentive reader can try and guess where her point of view lies based on the stories herein. Recently Rachel Clarke wrote an excellent article for the Guardian newspaper about dying during the time of COVID-19. I would suggest interested readers search for that to see if they enjoy her writing on these topics if they are unsure about a book with an apparently slightly grim value proposition. The opposite is true, you will be enlightened and elevated to a new platform above your own mortal fear.
On life, death and empathy
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