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A compassionate, heartbreaking and compelling account of an NHS doctor in the midst of the greatest public health crisis in living memory
'Powerful, uplifting and even reassuring . . . superb' Madeleine Bunting, Guardian
' A beautiful, blistering account of a key moment in our history. If I were Boris Johnson, I wouldn't want to read it' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times
'This memoir of the first wave of Covid will, I predict, be read a century from now as one of the best eyewitness accounts of what happened in the nation's wards in 2020. But it is no less important that it be read now, as a riveting, heart-wrenching testimony from the front line . . . Clarke writes with grace and empathy about her patients and colleagues . . . A must-read' Matthew D'Ancona
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Dr Rachel Clarke is an NHS palliative care doctor and the author of three Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction books. The most recent of these, Breathtaking (2021), was adapted into an acclaimed television series, broadcast on ITV in 2024. It reveals how she and her colleagues confronted the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Dear Life (2020), depicting her work in an NHS hospice, was shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Biography Award and long-listed for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize. Your Life in My Hands (2017) documents life as a junior doctor. Before going to medical school, Rachel was a broadcast journalist. She produced and directed current affairs documentaries focusing on subjects such as Al Qaeda, the Iraq War and the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She continues to write regularly for the Guardian, Sunday Times, New Statesman and Lancet among others, and appears regularly on television and radio. Inspired by a visit to Ukraine during the conflict in late 2022, Rachel founded a UK-registered charity, Hospice Ukraine, which supports the work of local palliative care teams in Ukraine.
Zusammenfassung
A compassionate, heartbreaking and compelling account of an NHS doctor in the midst of the greatest public health crisis in living memory, with a new introduction from Michael Rosen - now a major TV drama
Vorwort
A compassionate, heartbreaking and compelling account of an NHS doctor in the midst of the greatest public health crisis in living memory, with a new introduction from Michael Rosen - now a major TV drama
Zusatztext
'With Breathtaking, the palliative care specialist turns her attention to Covid, in a raw and unflinching portrayal of life on the frontline of the pandemic...Deeply humane, Breathtaking is a book replete with courage, resilience and empathy.'
