1 hour ago Being a parent means you’re never quite your own person again, but that self

Parents must frequently say ‘no’ to their own wants and needs to serve their child’s long-term flourishing – and growth into a wonderful adultRead more in our Making sense of it seriesI believe power trips and parenting should never mix, so I freaked out when the early childhood nurse told me that to my baby boy, I was a “goddess”. She meant he was dependent on me for everything, so I had to be everything to him, come what may. But the life divine didn’t come easily to me: my boy didn’t sleep much, so I didn’t either.A decade on, I’ve seen the light. The nurse was right all along: parenting is a God gig. You don’t need to be a believer for something miraculous to happen when you become a parent: you go about becoming the god you don’t believe in, and your child’s personal guarantee that the world is a welcoming place. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Lauryn Goodman asks Kyle Walker to rent out £2m Sussex home amid plans to move abroad

The 34-year-old footballer is facing a turbulent period, with transfer rumours surrounding his playing career and reports of a divorce adding strain to his personal life

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41 minutes ago Artist puts £69k worth of gold in paintings so 'poor people can't afford to buy them'

Victoria Unikel, 47, says she used a file to grind down 1kg of gold bullion worth around £69,000 and put it into the paint used for her three-painting 'MONEY Collection'

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26 minutes ago Kyle Walker is 'set for new life in Italy with wife Annie Kilner as football star, 34, eyes up Inter Milan loan transfer' after asking to leave Man City

The Manchester City captain, 34, has requested to leave the Premier League with AC Milan hoping to sign the England defender.

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39 minutes ago I was raped... Eleanor Williams' lies RUINED lives: 'Angry' sex attack victim in Barrow

Gabrielle, 24, of Barrow-in-Furness, said she is 'angry' Eleanor Williams only served two years of an eight-and-a-half-year jail term despite falsely accusing men of serious sex crimes.

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3 hours ago ITV Dancing on Ice winner Ryan Thomas' life since show from 'wedding of year' to sad loss

Ryan Thomas was crowned the winner of Dancing on Ice last year, but what has the actor been up to since taking the trophy home?

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6 hours ago Travel expert says you can avoid 'overpriced' item at airport with 'life

A travel expert has shared something you should never buy in the airport when you're waiting to fly - but she did suggest a reasonable alternative you can take

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2 hours ago Dancing on Ice star Mollie Pearce's life from brutal The Traitors loss to major surgery

Mollie Pearce is set to take to the ice in the brand new series of ITV's Dancing On Ice, but the 22-year-old already made a name for herself on BBC's The Traitors.

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8 hours ago Following Martin Lewis' 'heat the human not the home' advice I found a 'life saver' £20 gadget

"These heated hand warmers have been an absolute life-saver for me!"

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1 hour ago Micah Richards' huge net worth, very private love life and £31k annual haircut bill

The former England defender is a popular figure on our TV screens

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6 hours ago Friends fans are only just realising 'biggest ever lie told' during hit TV show

A woman has gone viral after she shared a post about how TV shows such as Friends have set people up for failure when it comes to adult life and even friendships

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45 minutes ago Sweden to contribute up to 3 warships to reinforced NATO presence in the Baltic

Sweden's government says the country will contribute up to three warships to a NATO effort to increase the alliance’s presence in the Baltic Sea as it tries to guard against sabotage of underwater infrastructure

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3 hours ago ITV Dancing on Ice winner Ryan Thomas' life since show from 'wedding of year' to devastating loss

As a new series of Dancing on Ice kicks off tonight, what has last year's winner Ryan Thomas been up to since claiming victory?

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2 hours ago Alive in the Merciful Country by AL Kennedy review – peace of mind meets a monster from the past

This provocative novel contains two narratives: the memoir of an activist starting a new life and the violent manifesto of a spy cop who knew herAnna McCormick, as many people did, is discovering that the first pandemic lockdown is playing havoc with time. Becalmed in her deliberately fortress-like London home with her young adult son Paul, she is simultaneously under pressure – teaching primary school children on Zoom, maintaining her stockpile of tinned goods, attempting to communicate with her mother’s care home – and forced into unnatural, unwanted inaction. As a survivor of domestic abuse, and several other threats to her safety and sanity, she is aware of the immense prize – a sanctuary, a job, meaningful relationships – she has secured, but also of its precariousness. Amid these conditions of unbidden contemplation, she begins to write a sort of memoir.So too does Buster, the shape-shifting, monstrous undercover cop who once infiltrated the OrKestrA, the “merry little band of...

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17 hours ago Bette Midler shares heartbreaking clip of family singing hymn in ruins of home they lost to LA fires

Beginning this Tuesday, the area was struck by its worst windstorms in over a decade, fueling fires that have destroyed thousands of structures and claimed at least 11 lives over the course of the week.

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26 hours ago 'I forked out £10k for weight loss surgery but was left throwing up lumps of flesh'

An influencer who was left with pneumonia, sepsis and blood clots after weight loss surgery said she doesn't regret her 'glow up' despite spending three months in hospital afterwards

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99 minutes ago Tom Parker's widow Kelsey shares baby plans with boyfriend two years after singer's death

Kelsey Parker, who sadly lost her husband, The Wanted singer Tom Parker, to a brain tumour in 2022, has offered insights into her new relationship with Will Lindsay and how children "could be on the cards" for them

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4 hours ago Dancing On Ice's Oti Mabuse addresses 'huge lesson from failures' after ITV show is axed

Dancing on Ice judge Oti Mabuse has reflected upon her ups and downs while working in TV, explaining she has learnt more from the failures in her life

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26 hours ago Revealed: How Bread matriarch Ma Boswell made a lot of dough! Jean Boht's extraordinary journey from humble Wirral childhood to huge fortune living in £2.75millon Windsor home

Vveteran actress Jean Boht rose from a relatively humble upbringing on the Wirral to amass a huge fortune with her American composer husband Carl Davis

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2 hours ago Moira Salmond hits out at those 'determined to damage' late husband's reputation

Widow’s comments follow Nicola Sturgeon’s claim she stepped in ‘many times’ when Alex Salmond was ‘really rough on people’

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9 hours ago Landowner and music festival founder claims mass pylons will 'ruin' Highlands

Hundreds of miles of new powerlines and pylons are due to cross the Highlands.

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3 hours ago Music sounds better with you? How your listening habits affect your love life

Psychologists say that singing, dancing and song preferences play a key role in the viability of romantic relationships“What’s the one thing your readers should do to help them use music to find and catch the partner of their dreams?” asks Patrick Savage, a senior research fellow in psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. “Go to karaoke and sing a duet. Go and sing A Whole New World with Brad Kane and Lea Salonga. That’s the number one recommendation by science. Well, just by me. I don’t have data on this, but from my personal experience, that’s the best.”Given that he is a musicologist, it is perhaps unsurprising that music is a key part of Savage’s relationship with his wife. But his experience with using music as a romantic tool is not unique. Love songs are found across cultures and despite not being a neat category they have historically been most popular – 67% of the top 40 tracks in America between 1960 and 2010 contained love themes. Continue reading...

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29 hours ago ITV presenter Nicki Shields says ’supportive husband’ is secret to balancing family and travel

EXCLUSIVE: Nicki Shields is the face of ITV and TNT Sports' coverage of Formula E motorsport and is able to travel the world with the series despite having three young children at home

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3 hours ago Teenage girl cried with her family and mourned grandfather's shock death for months

Brittney Jade Dwyer, then 19, from Redbank Plains, Queensland , stabbed 81-year-old Robert Whitwell in the neck and chest at his Adelaide home in August 2016.

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16 hours ago She was shunned for Donald Trump's inauguration 2017...but now fashion giants are begging to dress Melania on her husband's big day

Melania ended up wearing a £5,500 powder blue cashmere dress and bolero by Ralph Lauren to her husband's 2017 inauguration - one of few designers who offered to create an outfit.

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3 hours ago Man praised for 'petty' revenge on family who hogged sun loungers at resorts

A man has been hailed for his 'deliciously petty' revenge on a family who hogged the sun loungers at the resort pool on his island holiday

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3 hours ago Greater Manchester Hospital stabbing horror as 'nurse attacked in A&E'

A nurse is fighting for her life after being stabbed at a Greater Manchester hospital - a man is being held on suspicion of attempted murder following the incident on Saturday

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22 hours ago Photos of two Coronation Street legends on their real life wedding day

See how many famous faces you recognise in these fascinating photos

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4 hours ago Caroline Flack's mum's devastation over text found on Lewis Burton's phone

Caroline Flack tragically took her own life after learning that her criminal trial for assaulting then boyfriend, Lewis Burton, was going ahead, after initially being told she would only be given a caution

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3 hours ago Nurse fighting for life after being stabbed in 'murder bid' at hospital A&E

A man is being held on suspicion of attempted murder following the incident with a 'sharp instrument', but understood to not be a knife.

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29 hours ago Jeremy Kyle ‘to return to ITV’ – five years after axing of controversial show

Contentious host will star in an episode of ‘Kate Garraway’s Life Stories’

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4 hours ago Dream journey: a nostalgic trip aboard the sleeper train from Amsterdam to Berlin

Taking the overnight train between the capital cities and on to Dresden is all about slow travel and the romance of life on the trackOn the evening of our overnight train journey from Amsterdam to Berlin and on to Dresden aboard the European Sleeper, we enjoy a restorative plate of oysters and steak tartare on the decks of Amsterdam’s BrasserieMarie overlooking the Amstel. Then, after a nightcap in the adjoining Freddy’s Bar, a legendary spot in the Hotel De L’Europe, we make the short stroll to Amsterdam Centraal Station for the so-called Good Night Train.At 22.20 we board the train to Berlin, the bunks are swiftly made up and the blinds part pulled down for sleep. You can open the window for fresh air, brush your teeth in your own basin and there is crisp, clean linen. This slow journey is all about the romance of life on the track – and, for me, a lingering nostalgia. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago ‘Brother for life’: man injured in New Orleans attack witnessed friend’s death

Ryan Quigley was celebrating the new year with former teammate Martin ‘Tiger’ Bech, one of the 14 victims killedAmong those who were injured but survived the deadly New Year’s Day truck attack on New Orleans’ most famous street was a former Princeton University football player whose ex-teammate was murdered by the assailant.Ryan Quigley, 26, was in New Orleans with Martin “Tiger” Bech – who grew up about a two-hour drive west of the city in Lafayette, Louisiana – to ring in 2025 after both had forged a friendship while playing for Princeton University’s college football team. They had joined other revelers on Bourbon Street when a former US army veteran inspired by the Islamic State (IS) terror group managed to drive a pickup truck into the crowd that had gathered on one of the world’s most festive thoroughfares. Continue reading...

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32 hours ago Antiques Roadshow guest’s jaw drops as she discovers huge value of late husband’s worldwide hit children’s book

An Antiques Roadshow guest couldn’t contain her surprise when she was informed just how much a copy of her late author husband’s book and accompanying scrapbook were worth.

Culture

4 hours ago Inside Jack O'Connell's life from school sweetheart to unconventional home

Actor Jack O'Connell is back on our TV screens in the new series of SAS: Rogue Heroes, in which he portrays Paddy Mayne. Take a look into his life away from the cameras...

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3 hours ago Dancing On Ice Michaela Strachan's horror health battles and ordeal with worm living under her skin

Dancing On Ice star Michaela Strachan has had to overcome many health struggles throughout her life, from anorexia in her teens to cancer and more recently a worm living under her skin

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33 hours ago 'Quintessentially English film' fans call 'a timeless masterpiece' is on TV tonight

Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, the drama is considered a 'cinematic classic' by film fans and critics alike - and it will air on BBC Two today

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5 hours ago Max George credits mum Barbara for 'saving his life' after his hands 'turned blue' and he struggled to breathe before getting his pacemaker fitted

Now recovering at the Essex home he shares with actress girlfriend Maisie Smith , Max, 36, says he could've died had she not taken decisive action.

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3 hours ago LIVE: Nurse fighting for life after being stabbed in hospital A&E attempted murder

A man has been arrested

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6 hours ago Is this Britain's most annoying neighbour? Woman who keeps 28 cockerels in her back garden blasted by desperate locals... but she says 'horrendous' racket is THEIR fault

EXCLUSIVE: Lucia Lawrence, 50, was served with a noise abatement order after locals complained that her 28 cockerels crowing from 2am onwards was driving them mad.

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3 hours ago LIVE: Nurse fighting for life after being stabbed in hospital A&E ward attempted murder

A man has been arrested

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7 hours ago 'My son's name has sentimental value – but my family tell me it's awful'

A mum-to-be has been left fuming after people pointed out a major issue with the name she has chosen for her son, despite it being a nod to her husband's late grandfather

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4 hours ago Millie Mackintosh says motherhood ‘poured fuel on fire’ of alcohol struggles

Reality star said she would start drinking during her children’s bedtime and almost ‘hit’ her husband

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7 hours ago Prince Harry left 'so ashamed' after making mistake dubbed the 'biggest of his life'

It is exactly 20 years ago since Prince Harry caused outrage after wearing a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party - and he later admitted the incident was one of the 'biggest mistakes' of his life

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5 hours ago Fears for missing WWE legend 'unresponsive' in LA wildfire as fans beg for sign of life

Three-time WWE Women's Champion Melina has been 'unresponsive' amid the worst ever blazing wildfires that have destroyed much of LA and evacuated millions from their homes

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8 hours ago What are we paying senior royals for, if not to show up at presidential funerals? | Catherine Bennett

Perhaps grandma’s grudge against Jimmy Carter explains why Edward, 14th in line, was sentThat legendary boozer the late queen mother liked to entertain her guests with an “anti-toast”, in which she drank to people she disliked. One day the names ill-wished were “Tony Benn, Idi Amin and Jimmy Carter”. The benign US president featured in the same list as a mass murderer because, she explained, “he is the only man, since my dear husband died, to have had the effrontery to kiss me on the lips”.This alleged offence was enough for the queen mother to want it remembered, and not as an innocent accident. She believed it was her misfortune, her biographer William Shawcross wrote, to remind middle-aged men of their mothers; she recognised “the glazed look that came over their faces”, and thought this had made Carter reach in for his kiss. “I took a sharp step backwards. Not quite far enough.” So Carter could hardly help becoming aware of the accusation, which “distressed” him. Continue readin...

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5 hours ago Fears for WWE legend missing in LA wildfires as fans beg for sign of life

Three-time WWE Women's Champion Melina has been 'unresponsive' amid the worst ever blazing wildfires that have destroyed much of LA and evacuated millions from their homes

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8 hours ago At home with Simon Rattle: ‘There are still things I feel are beyond me’

The world-famous conductor, now 70, on family life in Berlin, why music keeps you young and the bleak outlook for the arts in BritainThe instruction was straightforward: “10.30am at home. Coffee and croissants.” Since timing, at least in part, is a conductor’s priority, a visitor feels the pressure – especially with the siren call of coffee – to be prompt. Simon Rattle lives on the edge of Grunewald, the expanse of forest and lakes to the west of Berlin, a haven for the prosperous who built villas there at the end of the 19th century, and a green lung for all Berliners today. I arrive a few minutes early – long enough to take issue with Christopher Isherwood who, in his Berlin Stories, complained about the “expensive ugliness” of the properties here, ranging from “the eccentric-rococo folly to the cubist flat-roofed steel-and-glass box”. Gables and turrets turn suburban houses into small castles, a reminder of Germany’s romantic folklore past. Fairy lights – we meet shortly before C...

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5 hours ago Max George made difficult decision in hospital after thinking he was ‘going to die’

Singer said he was ‘30 years younger’ than other patients on the heart ward

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8 hours ago All the ways to learn a language for free in 2025 including French and Spanish

MoneyMagpie Editor and financial expert Vicky Parry reveals how you can stick to your New Year’s resolution to learn a new language – without spending a penny

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5 hours ago Tangled life of Caroline Flack's friend who feels 'blamed' over her suicide: Andy Carroll's new love Lou Teasdale has fallen out with late star's family

Lou Teasdale has been on the fringes of the fame game for 15 years.

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8 hours ago ITV Love Island viewers may notice star's skin condition that 'worsens in the sun'

Fans of the reality dating show might spot the symptoms when Luca settles into life at the South African villa

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6 hours ago Lily Allen checks into trauma clinic in devastating move after marriage split

Lily Allen called it quits with husband, David Harbour, a month ago after admitting she 'wasn't in a good place' because her mental health was 'spiralling'

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8 hours ago Sunday with Jo Malone: ‘I’m always wearing four or five different fragrances’

The perfumer and her husband enjoy life in Dubai, with its silk shops, water workouts, large lunches and friends who are like familyUp early? I’m not the earliest of risers, but I live in Dubai and can walk to the beach for sunrise at 6.30am. Other than people, I miss nothing about home – my husband Gary and I feel as if we’re living our senior gap year.Sunday breakfast? A green juice and a red juice but, if I’m hungover, it’s eggs Benedict. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago BREAKING: LA fires death toll rises to 16 as firefighters send 'cadaver dogs' into smoking ruins

Dogs have been deployed in Los Angeles to search for human remains among the tens of thousands of burned out acres, with six fires still raging in California after nearly a week

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9 hours ago From the Beatles to biologics – how Liverpool became a life science hotspot

The city has a long history with tropical medicine and is now home to one of the largest biotech clusters in EuropeTucked away in the village of Leasowe, near Moreton on the Wirral peninsula west of Liverpool, the US pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is building a new £35m glass-clad laboratory building.It is part of a growing life sciences cluster in and around Liverpool, one of the largest in Europe, and a leader in vaccine development and manufacture, as well as infectious disease research projects in the UK. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago LA fires death toll rises to 16 as firefighters send 'cadaver dogs' into smoking ruins

Dogs have been deployed in Los Angeles to search for human remains among the tens of thousands of burned out acres, with six fires still raging in California after nearly a week

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9 hours ago My partner blames a ‘lack of attraction’ for not wanting sex | Ask Philippa

It’s important that he knows how his actions and words are affecting youThe question My partner and I, both in our early 40s, have been together for 15 months, though this is our second time dating. We briefly dated four years ago, but he ended things via text, which has left me feeling anxious about the possibility of him leaving again. This relationship is important to us and we’ve moved in together while trying to start a family. However, since moving in, I’ve noticed changes in him. He sometimes seems distant and our sex life has diminished. He has struggled with maintaining an erection and attributed it to a “lack of attraction”, which was difficult for me to hear.Given the stress of fertility treatments, I suspect his issues may be emotional or physical, yet he focuses on attraction. He has suggested we reconnect through non-sexual intimacy like holding hands, which I’m willing to try. I also proposed couples therapy, which he’s hesitant about. I feel uneasy, especially when I...

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8 hours ago A Second Act by Dr Matt Morgan review – what nearly dying can teach us about living

In this sequel to his bestseller, Critical, the intensive care doctor draws lessons on the joys of a ‘second life’ from the experiences of patients who have flatlined and been revived“We have two lives,” Dr Matt Morgan writes, before clarifying: “The second begins when you realise you have [only] one.” Sometimes, as the case studies in this book detail, this realisation comes more suddenly and profoundly than most of us can imagine. For more than 20 years, Morgan has been a specialist doctor in intensive care, labouring at the extreme margins of life. Just occasionally, in his day-to-day education in human mortality, he has witnessed what might, in other traditions, be thought of as supernatural events: people whose vital signs have flatlined, but who have returned to tell the tale. The stories in this book – a sequel to his bestselling Critical – are his accounts of those impossible second acts, and his reflections on what we can learn from those lucky few who have experienced both...

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