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Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic

Autor Dr Roopa Farooki
en Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 2023
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW STATESMAN'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE, GUARDIAN'BRILLIANT' OBSERVER'POWERFUL AND EVOCATIVE' ADAM KAY'YOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE READ IT' ALI SMITH, NEW STATESMANFrom the frontlines of the NHS, the story of a junior doctor's love, loss and grief through the Covid-19 crisis------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In early 2020, junior doctor Roopa Farooki lost her sister to cancer. But just weeks later, she found herself plunged into another kind of crisis, fighting on the frontline of the battle taking place in her hospital, and in hospitals across the country. Everything is True is the story of Roopa's first forty days of the Covid-19 crisis from the frontlines of A&E and the acute medical wards, as struggling through her grief, she battles for her patients' and colleagues' survival. Working thirteen-hour shifts, she returns home each evening to write through her exhaustion, chronicling the devastating losses and slowly eroding dehumanisation happening in real time on the ward.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526633415
ISBN-10: 1526633418
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Everything is True will join the ranks of the urgent, timely first-hand accounts emerging from the NHS front line, such as Rachel Clarke's Breathtaking, Dominic Pimenta's Duty of Care and Louise Curtis's A Nurse's Story. However, as the beautifully written story of Farooki's personal grief, it has the power to transcend the present moment and sit alongside Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness, Joanna Cannon's Breaking and Mending, and Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air

Notă biografică

Roopa Farooki is a writer and junior doctor for the NHS. She is the author of six literary novels that have been translated into over a dozen languages, and a series of middle-grade children's books for Oxford University Press. Her writing has been awarded the John C. Laurence Prize and an Arts Council Award, and listed three times for the Women's Prize. She is also a lecturer on the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford, and the Ambassador for family for Relate, the counselling charity. In 2020 she was awarded the Junior Doctor Leadership Prize from her NHS Trust, for her work during the Covid pandemic. @RoopaFarooki

Recenzii

The most powerful and evocative account of working through the pandemic that I have read
This is such a tough good read about a time of grief, tragedy, loss and catastrophic UK government mismanagement - not over yet, she makes clear - that after you've read it, after you've withstood its clear-eyed anger, you emerge focussed on what must change and knowing how lucky you are to have read it
Brilliant . vivid and immediate, fragmentary and unalloyed
A laser guided insight into what's been happening in hospitals during the pandemic laying bare what we were all clapping for ... A devastating fusion of private and public grief. Beautifully written, brutally honest
The pandemic up-close and thumpingly personal ... Startlingly honest and devastatingly good
Even after all we've heard and read about what staff in the NHS have faced during the pandemic, her accounts still have the power to shock
A raw, real-time monologue ... Full of gallows humour, resentment and fear
Long may Dr Farooki write ... An insightful and entertaining guide, with an attractive blend of wit, self-awareness and moral seriousness ... A genuine insight on love, grief and what truly matters
A stand out ... Raw and clear-eyed
The novelist and doctor shares her story of love, loss and grief through the Covid-19 crisis
An extraordinary writer . Beautiful, heartbreaking, brilliant, furious and oh-so-honest - an amazing read
An eloquent testimonial of grief and fury through the first forty days of the Covid crisis - Farooki's urgent, fragmentary diary of life on the wards conveys the fear, confusion and uncertainty of those first weeks with singular brilliance. I read it in one sitting, hoping it will find its way onto the shelves of those politicians who seem reluctant to learn from their mistakes, and who need to know the truth about the human consequences of health policy decisions
A powerful, honest, angry, vivid book ... It will undoubtedly have a big impact ... and finds absolutely the right route through the personal, the political, the angry, the sad, the mundane
A brilliantly written, disturbing and brutally honest book