![]() ![]() ![]() I Am, I Am, I Am HHHHH by Maggie O’Farrell Tinder Press, £18. There have been so many hospital dashes her daughter is on first-name terms with nurses in their A&E department. I Am, I Am, I Am Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell Hardcover, 304 pages purchase Police didn't tell me anything, but they asked me about the incident in very close detail. She has three children and the second, now eight, suffers agonising chronic eczema and 12-15 allergic reactions a year which can be triggered by anything from an egg being cracked nearby to sitting near someone who ate muesli for breakfast. Such a devastating experience might have made her wary but she is determined to take a cavalier, sometimes reckless approach to life. ![]() Heartbreakingly “every day I had the choice of either going without lunch or climbing the stairs the only way I could, on all fours, like a bear, like a baby, with the whole school watching”. When she finally returned to school, after months of convalescence followed by months of physiotherapy, her disability made her a pariah, “a spaz, a moron, a joey”. When she pulled through doctors thought she would never walk again. Eight-year-old O’Farrell analyses the words and facial expressions of family and doctors, becoming “alert to nuance”. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |