Everything is True
- Author Roopa Farooki
- Narrator Tania Rodrigues
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Run Time 5 hours and 45 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Biography: writers, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Memoirs, Society and Social Sciences.
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What to expect
'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES
'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE
'YOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE READ IT' ALI SMITH, NEW STATESMAN
'SEARING' GUARDIAN, 50 hottest reads for summer
'The most powerful and evocative account of working through the pandemic that I have read' ADAM KAY
'A laser guided insight into what’s been happening in hospitals during the pandemic laying bare what we were all clapping for ... Beautifully written, brutally honest' JO BRAND
From the frontlines of the NHS, the story of a junior doctor's love, loss and grief through the Covid-19 crisis
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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.
At once an unflinching insider’s account of medicine in the time of coronavirus, and the devastating story of a sister’s grief, Everything is True is an exhilarating memoir of holding on to that which makes us human against insurmountable odds.
'An extraordinary writer … Beautiful, heartbreaking, brilliant, furious and oh-so-honest - an amazing read' KATE MOSSE
Critics Review
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The most powerful and evocative account of working through the pandemic that I have read
ADAM KAY -
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
NEW STATESMAN -
A searing account of the first 40 days of the UK’s pandemic lockdown from a first-hand witness. Farooki, a novelist, finished medical school a matter of months before coronavirus emerged – and found herself on the frontlines of an unprecedented medical emergency.
GUARDIAN, 50 hottest books for summer -
Brilliant … vivid and immediate, fragmentary and unalloyed
OBSERVER -
The pandemic up-close and thumpingly personal … Startlingly honest and devastatingly good
GUARDIAN -
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
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