I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated 
and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected 
to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man 
on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter--for whom 
this book was written--from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers.

Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal a whole life 
in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained 
emotion, O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, 
beauty, and mysteries of life itself.


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?

I Am, I Am, I Am is a book you will finish newly conscious of your own vulnerability, and determined to 
make every heartbeat count.

A heartfelt and tenaciously powerful condensation of what it means to be alive,