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Winner of the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction | Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize An unforgettable and inspiring true story of how one family’s grief transformed into a lifesaving gift—written by a bestselling author and palliative care doctor. The first of our organs to form and the...

Thomas Steinmann ist ein Mann, auf den man sich zu einhundert Prozent verlassen kann. Als Oberbrandmeister der Städtischen Feuerwehr steht er mit beiden Beinen fest im Leben und ist bei allen beliebt. Mit seiner Frau Sarah und seinem Sohn Daniel wohnt er in einem kleinen Haus am Rande von Dresden. Alles läuft super, doch dann schlägt das Schicksal grausam zu. Das Corona-Virus breitet sich rasend schnell aus und aufgrund seiner Vorerkrankungen, stirbt der kleine Daniel daran.

Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left wanting when it came to helping patients and their families face death. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty in which the quality, not quantity of life truly matters. In the same year she started to work in a hospice, Rachel was forced to face tragedy in her own life when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

These are the extraordinary realities of the NHS frontline. From the historic junior doctor strikes to the 'humanitarian crisis' declared by the Red Cross, the overstretched health service is on the precipice. This is a powerful polemic on its systematic degradation, and a letter of optimism to that same health service and those who support it. It captures with tenderness, a new doctor's experiences of an NHS at breaking point.