Your Life in My Hands

by Rachel Clarke - review

I wrote (but never submitted anywhere) this review of Rachel Clarke’s debut book, Your Life in My Hands, back in 2017. It’s interesting to reread it because at the moment it’s tempting to think of the NHS pre-pandemic as being perfect. “If only we could get back to pre-pandemic times”, many of us think. But it was not a panacea for either patients or NH…