Intensive Care

Suzanne Crowe grew up in Bray, County Wicklow, and studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin. She went on to train in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and practices mostly with children. She is currently a consultant in paediatric intensive care medicine at Children's Health Ireland in Crumlin, Ireland's largest acute paediatric teaching hospital, and president of the Irish Medical Council. She has a passionate interest in children's rights, especially in terms of health and social care, sits on several charity boards including LGBT Ireland and Cheshire Ireland, and has a regular column in the Irish Independent in which she writes about healthcare and child-related topics.She is a widow with five children, one of whom - Beatrice - died shortly after she was born. Beatrice was Suzanne's major inspiration to work in intensive care for children.Suzanne lives in Dublin and Intensive Care is her first book.

Crowe writes with breathtaking matter of factness .. Her account of her slow emergence from all-encompassing grief makes for harrowing reading