Dear Life

'In part a love letter both to her father, whose life anddeath she describes with great tenderness and unflinching directness, and herpatients, but it is also a touching and profound meditation on what it means tobe human. It is a remarkable book' John Crace, Guardian. 'Rachel Clarke's heart-rending account beautifully mixes hermemories of caring for the dying with those of her father's terminal cancer. she's the kind of doctor we would all want as we face our last days. And she'ssure as hell a writer. There is a tender, lyrical beauty to the prose that addsto the emotional punch' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times. 'This is a wonderful book. Rachel takes the worst life canthrow at us and shows us the beauty in it, and the very best of human nature'Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt. 'Dying is rarely easy, nor is writing about it - but RachelClarke does so perfectly, with neither sentimentality nor sensationalism, andinstead with realism and kindness. This is a truly wonderful book. Read it'Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm.