'Maggie O'Farrell turned 17 near-death experiences into a literary masterwork', Entertainment Weekly.

The astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined the author's  life. The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an on-going, daily struggle to protect her daughter, for whom this book was written, from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers.