Here’s what Francesca Brown, books editor for Stylist, had to say about it:

“Say the name to a Maggie O’Farrell convert and they’ll bowl you over with their unbridled glee. O’Farrell’s fans love her… Reading I Am, I Am, I Am (taken from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar), it’s easy to understand why. Here is all of human existence wrapped up in 17 heart-stopping, resonating and emotional true tales of O’Farrell’s everyday brushes with death – from a hemorrhage in childbirth to leaping off a wall into the sea as a dare.

“Her first story is possibly the most terrifying… As a teenager, she goes off to work in a remote Scottish hotel and revels in taking rural walks on her own. Encountering a man on an isolated path, a primal instinct kicks in when he places his binoculars around her neck and she keeps him talking until they reach safety where she reports the strange incident to the police. A week later, she is visited by detectives investigating the rape and murder of a 22-year-old backpacker discovered in the same remote area.

“This story is part of a bigger pattern: that life and death are closely intertwined and it’s in the living that counts. It’s a realisation that will have you casting your mind back to moments across your own life; those infinitesimal near brushes that could define your story but that in loving, living and embracing what the world has to offer comes liberation. Prepare to read and share will all those you care about.”

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I Am, I Am, I Am is your next truly gripping read