{"title":"Rachel Clarke","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"rachel-clarke-2-books-collection-set-dear-life-your-life-in-my-hands-paperback","title":"Rachel Clarke 2 Books Collection Set (Dear Life, Your Life In My Hands) - Non Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitles in This Set\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love, Loss and Consolation\u003cbr\u003eYour Life In My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Brand New\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003eDear Life ISBN: 9780349143934\u003cbr\u003eYour Life In My Hands ISBN: 9781786068651\u003cbr\u003ePublishers: Abacus, Metro Publishing\u003cbr\u003eAge Range: Adult\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOverview\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis powerful two-book collection brings together Dr Rachel Clarke's Sunday Times bestselling accounts of life and death on the NHS frontline. Dear Life explores the intimate world of palliative care, while Your Life In My Hands documents her early years as a junior doctor during the 2016 strikes. Together they offer a moving, honest, and deeply human portrait of modern medicine, ideal for readers of memoir, medical non-fiction, and anyone who has ever needed the NHS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDear Life is Rachel Clarke's acclaimed memoir of working as a palliative care doctor, exploring what it means to care for people at the end of their lives. Drawing on her own experience of losing her father to cancer, Clarke writes with rare candour about grief, love, and the surprising moments of joy found in a hospice. The book was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, cementing its place as one of the most admired medical memoirs of recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour Life In My Hands takes readers back to the beginning of Clarke's medical career, capturing the pressures, exhaustion, and idealism of life as a junior doctor. Written against the backdrop of the historic 2016 junior doctor strikes, it is both a personal account and a passionate defence of the NHS as a public institution under strain. Clarke's background as a television journalist shines through in her clear, compelling storytelling, making complex medical and political issues accessible to general readers. Together, these books trace Clarke's journey from junior doctor to palliative care specialist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Sunday Times bestselling memoirs by a working NHS doctor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHonest, moving insight into palliative and frontline hospital care\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAward-shortlisted writing praised for warmth and humanity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerfect gift for NHS staff, healthcare students, and memoir readers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrand new paperback copies, ready to read or gift\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore training as a doctor, Rachel Clarke worked as a television journalist and documentary maker. She now specialises in palliative medicine, caring for patients at the end of life while championing the power of storytelling to build empathy. Clarke is the author of several Sunday Times bestselling books, including Breathtaking, her account of the NHS during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her writing combines clinical insight with deeply personal reflection, earning widespread critical acclaim and multiple award nominations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy You'll Love This Collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese two unforgettable memoirs pair beautifully, showing both ends of an NHS doctor's journey. 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Drawing on her work as a palliative care doctor and the devastating experience of losing her own father to cancer, Clarke offers a tender, honest and ultimately uplifting exploration of dying well. This paperback edition is a moving, beautifully written addition to any non-fiction shelf, perfect for readers of memoir, medicine and the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2017, Rachel Clarke's own training as a palliative care specialist was tested when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Dear Life is her account of that experience, woven together with stories from her patients and colleagues on the hospice wards where she works. Clarke reveals that even the very best palliative care cannot soften the pain of losing someone you love, yet she argues that a hospice is also a place brimming with more of what matters in life: more love, strength, kindness, joy, tenderness, grace and compassion than most of us could ever imagine. The book asks what it truly means to know your time is running out, contrasting this with how the rest of us drift through life as though we have all the time in the world. Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, Dear Life has been widely praised for its unflinching honesty and ability to find hope and connection in the darkest of circumstances. 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