Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

The heart-rending story of a child’s heart transplant

As nine-year-old Max resigns himself to death, a saviour arrives in the person of Keira, the victim of a tragic car crash, whose family opts to donate her organs

Dr Christiaan Barnard, the pioneering surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant in South Africa in 1968. [Getty Images]
  • Comments

  • The Story of a Heart

    Rachel Clarke

    Abacus, pp. 288, £22

Already a subscriber? Log in

This article is for subscribers only

Subscribe today to get 3 months' delivery of the magazine, as well as online and app access, for only £3.

  • Weekly delivery of the magazine
  • Unlimited access to our website and app
  • Enjoy Spectator newsletters and podcasts
  • Explore our online archive, going back to 1828

Read next

Trending

Ross Clark

Sally Rooney is talking nonsense about climate change

Two years ago, Time magazine named novelist Sally Rooney as one of its 100 most influential people in the world. In that case, the world will presumably be moving very quickly to abolish capitalism, because Rooney has declared it – not entirely originally – to be the root cause of climate change.  Rooney really does seem to

More on organ donation

Also by Isabel Hardman

Latest

Comments

Join the debate for just $5 for 3 months

Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for $5.

Already a subscriber? Log in