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The story of a heart

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Rachel Clarke is appearing at the Chipping Campden Literature Festival on Monday 5th May 2025 (details here).

Pre-order your Festival copy and receive 10% discount.

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Alternatively we can post the book to you (cost £3.70) or it can be collected from the shop in advance of the event.

Published by Abacus ISBN 9780349145594  Hardback

Original price was: £22.00.Current price is: £19.80.

Product ID: 72401 SKU: 9780349145594 Categories: ,

The first of our organs to form, the last to die, the heart is both a simple pump and the symbol of all that makes us human: as long as it continues to beat, we hope. One summer day, nine-year-old Keira suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident. Though her brain and the rest of her body began to shut down, her heart continued to beat. In an act of extraordinary generosity, Keira’s parents and siblings agreed that she would have wanted to be an organ donor. Meanwhile nine-year-old Max had been hospitalised for nearly a year with a virus that was causing his young heart to fail. When Max’s parents received the call they had been hoping for, they knew it came at a terrible cost to another family. This is the unforgettable story of how one family’s grief transformed into a lifesaving gift.

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