This doesn’t feel like a memoar, she wrote it more like a novel. Centered in nearly death experience, causing by her illness. My first book of Maggie O’Farrell, but I love her already. Looking forward to read more of her books.

Seventeen life-threatening experiences of Maggie O'Farrel. The stories are not in chronological order. It seems that the experiences that most impacted Maggie O'Farrel's life are put at the beginning and the end of the book. Nor are the stories told in chronological order. Maggie O'Farrel tells the story backwards and forwards, however, it's still easy to understand. Some of the stories are told profoundly, taking the reader into Maggie's mind and feeling the things she felt during the life-threatening moments. If these stories take to heart, they remind readers to be grateful for life.