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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER AND MAJOR ITV SERIES

'The next Mr Bates v the Post Office poised to shake up Britain' Big Issue
'The UK's human story of Covid' Stylist
'If you're wondering whether to turn the page and read it, my message is simple: please do' Michael Rosen
'A book replete with courage and empathy' Observer
'A searing insider's account' Independent

How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between a perilously unwell patient in quarantine and their distraught family outside? To be uncertain whether the protective equipment you wear fits the science or the size of the government stockpile? To strive your utmost to maintain your humanity even while barricaded behind visors and masks?

Rachel is a palliative care doctor who looked after the most gravely unwell patients on the Covid-19 wards of her hospital. Amid the tensions, fatigue and rising death toll, she witnessed the courage of patients and NHS staff alike in conditions of unprecedented adversity. For all the bleakness and fear, she found that moments that could stop you in your tracks abounded. People who rose to their best, upon facing the worst, as a microbe laid waste to the population.

With a new introduction from Michael Rosen

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER AND MAJOR ITV SERIES

'The next Mr Bates v the Post Office poised to shake up Britain' Big Issue
'The UK's human story of Covid' Stylist
'If you're wondering whether to turn the page and read it, my message is simple: please do' Michael Rosen
'A book replete with courage and empathy' Observer
'A searing insider's account' Independent

How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between a perilously unwell patient in quarantine and their distraught family outside? To be uncertain whether the protective equipment you wear fits the science or the size of the government stockpile? To strive your utmost to maintain your humanity even while barricaded behind visors and masks?

Rachel is a palliative care doctor who looked after the most gravely unwell patients on the Covid-19 wards of her hospital. Amid the tensions, fatigue and rising death toll, she witnessed the courage of patients and NHS staff alike in conditions of unprecedented adversity. For all the bleakness and fear, she found that moments that could stop you in your tracks abounded. People who rose to their best, upon facing the worst, as a microbe laid waste to the population.

With a new introduction from Michael Rosen

Über den Autor
Dr Rachel Clarke is an NHS palliative care doctor and the author of four Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction books. The most recent of these, The Story of a Heart (2024), won the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. Breathtaking (2021), which reveals how she and her colleagues confronted the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, was adapted into an acclaimed television series, broadcast on ITV in 2024. 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. 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XIV
226 S.
ISBN-13: 9780349144566
ISBN-10: 0349144567
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 794243
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Clarke, Rachel
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 196 x 125 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Rachel Clarke
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2021
Gewicht: 0,214 kg
Artikel-ID: 119691086