Rachel is a former broadcast journalist, practising hospital palliative care doctor and author of three Sunday Times bestselling books including DEAR LIFE (shortlisted for the shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Biography Award & long-listed for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize) and BREATHTAKING (adapted into a major television series, broadcast by ITV1 in 2024).

Rachel writes for the Guardian, Sunday Times, New Statesman, and Lancet, among others. Her television and radio appearances include BBC Question Time, BBC Newsnight, Channel 4 News and Sky News.

Her latest book, THE STORY OF A HEART, was published in the UK and US in September. It is shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.