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Rachel Clarke: The Story of a Heart

Rachel Clarke: The Story of a Heart

Update: 2024-10-23
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My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Rachel Clarke, author of the Baillie Gifford longlisted new book The Story of a Heart. Rachel tells me how she came so intimately to tell the story of 9-year-old Keira, whose death in a car accident and donation of her heart gave a chance at life to a dying stranger, Max. She describes the medical and conceptual changes that led up to that extraordinary possibility and explains how, as a medic, you have to be able to combine technical professionalism with a sense of the sanctity of the human beings you work with. And she catches us up on how Max is doing eight years on.



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Rachel Clarke: The Story of a Heart

Rachel Clarke: The Story of a Heart

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