The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke
The Story of a Heart is an extraordinary, compelling account of life-giving medicine. Rachel Clarke follows the journey of a human heart - and narrates one of the most miraculous developments in 20th century medicine - as she describes the saving of a nine-year-old boy.
Profoundly moving and at the same time wildly inspiringA beautiful, humane book... Even hearing a sliver of this story would make you hunger to learn every possible detail, and rare is the writer who could pull it together so beautifully * Rob Delaney *
The Story of a Heart is the best narrative non-fiction I've read in years. Rachel Clarke has written a profound piece of investigative journalism and wrapped it up in poetry. A story of death - and life, and how one incredible family gifted a miracle to another * Christie Watson *
An extraordinary story, beautifully told * Adam Kay *
The Story of a Heart is the best narrative non-fiction I've read in years. Rachel Clarke has written a profound piece of investigative journalism and wrapped it up in poetry. A story of death - and life, and how one incredible family gifted a miracle to another * Christie Watson *
An extraordinary story, beautifully told * Adam Kay *
Dr Rachel Clarke is an NHS palliative care doctor and the author of four Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction books. The most recent of these, The Story of a Heart (2024), won the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. Breathtaking (2021), which reveals how she and her colleagues confronted the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, was adapted into an acclaimed television series, broadcast on ITV in 2024. Dear Life (2020), depicting her work in an NHS hospice, was shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Biography Award and long-listed for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize. Before going to medical school, Rachel was a broadcast journalist. She produced and directed current affairs documentaries focusing on subjects such as Al Qaeda, the Iraq War and the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She continues to write regularly for the Guardian, Sunday Times, New Statesman and Lancet among others, and appears regularly on television and radio. Inspired by a visit to Ukraine during the conflict in late 2022, Rachel founded a UK-registered charity, Hospice Ukraine, which supports the work of local palliative care teams in Ukraine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349145594 |
| Title | The Story of a Heart |
| Author | Rachel Clarke |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2024-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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