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Breathtaking: The story you haven''t been told - now a major ITV series

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By (author): Rachel Clarke

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA

'The next Mr Bates v the Post Office poised to shake up Britain' Big Issue

'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

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
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Product Details
  • Weight: 213g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Sep 2021
  • Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780349144566

About Rachel Clarke

Dr Rachel Clarke is an NHS palliative care doctor and the author of three Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction books. The most recent of these Breathtaking (2021) was adapted into an acclaimed television series broadcast on ITV in 2024. It reveals how she and her colleagues confronted the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. 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. Your Life in My Hands (2017) documents life as a junior doctor. 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.

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