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

Description: Everything is True by Dr Roopa Farooki CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW STATESMANA STAND OUT SUNDAY TIMESSTARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD RACHEL CLARKE, GUARDIANBRILLIANT OBSERVERPOWERFUL AND EVOCATIVE ADAM KAYYOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE READ IT ALI SMITH, NEW STATESMANFrom the frontlines of the NHS, the story of a junior doctors 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 Roopas 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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 childrens 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 Womens 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 Review The most powerful and evocative account of working through the pandemic that I have read -- ADAM KAYThis 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 youve read it, after youve withstood its clear-eyed anger, you emerge focussed on what must change and knowing how lucky you are to have read it -- ALI SMITH * NEW STATESMAN *Brilliant … vivid and immediate, fragmentary and unalloyed * OBSERVER *A laser guided insight into whats 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 -- JO BRANDThe pandemic up-close and thumpingly personal ... Startlingly honest and devastatingly good -- RACHEL CLARKE * GUARDIAN *Even after all weve heard and read about what staff in the NHS have faced during the pandemic, her accounts still have the power to shock * i news *A raw, real-time monologue ... Full of gallows humour, resentment and fear * NEW STATESMAN *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 * IRISH TIMES *A stand out ... Raw and clear-eyed * SUNDAY TIMES *The novelist and doctor shares her story of love, loss and grief through the Covid-19 crisis * GUARDIAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2022 *An extraordinary writer … Beautiful, heartbreaking, brilliant, furious and oh-so-honest - an amazing read -- KATE MOSSEAn eloquent testimonial of grief and fury through the first forty days of the Covid crisis – Farookis 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 -- GAVIN FRANCISA 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 -- ALICE JOLLYA brilliantly written, disturbing and brutally honest book * TABLET * Promotional From the frontlines of the NHS, the story of a junior doctors love, loss and grief through the Covid-19 crisis Review Quote The pandemic up-close and thumpingly personal ... Startlingly honest and devastatingly good Promotional "Headline" From the frontlines of the NHS, the story of a junior doctors love, loss and grief through the Covid-19 crisis Feature A junior doctor on the NHS, Farooki was awarded the NHS Junior Doctor Leadership Prize in 2020. As a writer, her work has been nominated for the Womens Prize three times, and awarded a John Laurence Prize and an Arts Council Award Details ISBN1526633418 Short Title Everything Is True Pages 240 Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1526633418 ISBN-13 9781526633415 Format Paperback Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2023-02-02 NZ Release Date 2023-02-02 UK Release Date 2023-02-02 Author Dr Roopa Farooki Subtitle A junior doctors story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic DEWEY 614.5924140092 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-07-03 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139654329;

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