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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.This is a <b>wonderful</b> book. Rachel takes the worst life can throw at us and shows us the beauty in it<b></b>
What a <b>remarkable</b> book this is; <b>tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life</b>. It <b>sings with joy and kindness</b>
A <b>truly wonderful</b> book. Read it
A <b>truly beautiful</b> book about death and life and the price of love. Told by a doctor, with <b>compassion and wisdom</b>. I cried, but they were warm, comforting tears. It made me think about stuff I fear in a new and better way
<b>Moving, thought-provoking and so very important</b>. I'm immeasurably grateful to have read it, and it will stay with me. In death, we learn about life
A <b>touching and profound meditation</b> on what it means to be human . . . it is a <b>remarkable</b> book
Guardian
<i>Dear Life</i> names the tension between love and risk that gives life its sweetness. It takes readers to the edge of life in supportive, wise company
<b>Heart-wrenchingly tender</b><i></i>
Observer
She writes with a <b>tender, lyrical beauty</b>
Sunday Times
Her words are brimful of <b>love, grace and kindness</b>
Guardian
A <b>magnificent, tender</b> book<b></b>
Independent
Moving . . . an honest account from the front line of death
The Times
An <b>enthralling</b> and <b>deeply affecting</b> book . . . It is [the] blend of the personal and professional that makes <i>Dear Life</i> so special
Express
Honest, clear-sighted and immensely wise, Clarke's book is laced with loss, yet raises a jubilant toast to life
Literary Review
A heartbreaking, exhilarating read
Guardian
Arguably the most remarkable book of the year
The i
An NHS doctor interweaves heartwarming stories of palliative care for patients in a hospice with memories of her beloved GP father
Guardian
Rachel Clarke weaves together an account of her training as a doctor who came to specialise in palliative care, the stories of her patients, and her father's death in <i>Dear Life</i>. I read it while coming to terms with the death of a family friend, and found it full of honesty and tender wisdom about life and the process of dying. It managed the brilliant and paradoxical feat of helping you love life a little more and fear death a little less
- Matt Haig, Guardian
This astonishing book by Dr Clarke will make you re-evaluate your own life and priorities. This is a deeply moving read
Woman & Home
Compassionate, heartfelt and deeply life-affirming
Mirror
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD
'So very important' NIGELLA LAWSON
'Brilliantly alive' SUNDAY TIMES
'A truly wonderful book. Read it' HENRY MARSH
'Shows us the very best of human nature' ADAM KAY
'Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness' GUARDIAN
As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day, she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable.
Rachel's training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She learned that nothing - even the best palliative care - can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you love. And yet, she argues, in a hospice there is more of what matters in life - more love, more strength, more kindness, more joy, more tenderness, more grace, more compassion - than you could ever imagine. For if there is a difference between people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it is simply this: that the terminally ill know their time is running out, while we live as though we have all the time in the world.
Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself.
'Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness' Guardian
'She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty' Sunday Times
A deeply personal memoir that finds light and love in the darkest of places.
As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable.
Rachel's training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She learned that nothing - even the best palliative care - can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you love.
And yet, she argues, in a hospice there is more of what matters in life - more love, more strength, more kindness, more joy, more tenderness, more grace, more compassion - than you could ever imagine. For if there is a difference between people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it is simply this: that the terminally ill know their time is running out, while we live as though we have all the time in the world.
Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself.