Published four months after her death, the poet’s reflections on mortality are both agonising and profoundly life-affirming There are no atheists in foxholes, goes the saying, and indeed social scientists and evolutionary biologists have argued that the experience of war or conflict drives religi...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/21/on-another-planet-they-can-save-me-by-lieke-marsman-review-an-astonishing-memoir-of-terminal-illness)

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