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 the 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