O'Farrell has certainly had her fair share of brushes with death (though some, frankly, more danger than death) and this collection of incidents from her life build up into a compendium of examples of how precarious we all are, just a hair's breadth away from disaster. From life-threatening childhood disease to almost death by drowning via near decapitation and so on, we gasp but in the end participate in her almost matter-of-fact celebration of survival. Bracing!
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 91 Winter 2019 ) |
