The Story of a Heart

The Story of a Heart Two Families United by Loss, Love, and Lifesaving Medicine

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"One summer day, nine-year-old Keira Ball was in a terrible car accident and suffered catastrophic brain injuries. As the rest of her body began to shut down, her heart continued to beat. In an act of extraordinary generosity, Keira's parents and siblings immediately agreed that she would have wanted to be an organ donor. Meanwhile nine-year-old Max Johnson had been in a hospital for nearly a year, valiantly fighting the virus that was causing his young heart to fail. When Max's parents received the call they had been hoping for, they knew it came at a terrible cost to another family-in what Clarke calls "the brutal arithmetic of transplant surgery." The act of Keira's heart resuming its rhythm inside Max's body was a medical miracle. But this was only part of the story. While waiting on the transplant list, Max had become the hopeful face of a campaign to change the UK's laws around organ donation. Following his successful surgery, Kei

Book information

ISBN: 9781668045435
Publisher: Scribner
Imprint: Scribner
Pub date:
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition
DEWEY: 617.4120592092
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20240509
Language: English
Weight: 380g
Height: 213mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 17mm