Dr Rachel Clarke The Story of a Heart

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT NOW STARTS AT 1:30PM (NOT AS PRINTED IN THE PROGRAMME)

The author of the bestselling Your Life in My Hands, Breathtaking (adapted for TV) and Dear Life shares an eye-opening and incredibly poignant story that tracks the process of a heart transplant through the intertwined stories of two extraordinary children. The book, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 and winner of the the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2025, 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.

Talking to Tim Hubbard