Dear Life

Rachel Clarke should be essential reading for all of us . A few years ago she wrote Your Life in My Hands , an account of her time as a junior doctor. Now she has written an even better book . . . It is in part a love letter both to her father, whose life and death she describes with great tenderness and unflinching directness, and her patients, but it is also a touching and profound meditation on what it means to be human . . . It is a remarkable book