The Story of a Heart
The Story of a Heart won the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024. This is the unforgettable story of how one family's grief transformed into a lifesaving gift. With tremendous compassion and clarity, Dr Rachel Clarke relates the urgent journey of a young girl's heart and explores a history of remarkable medical innovations, stretching back over a century and involving the knowledge and dedication not just of surgeons but of countless physicians, immunologists, nurses and scientists.
- Publisher
- Hachette UK
- ISBN-13
- 9780349145587
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Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlistedMajor(2024)
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