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Show Notes
<div>My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Rachel Clarke, author of the Baillie Gifford longlisted new book <em>The Story of a Heart</em>. Rachel tells me how she came so intimately to tell the story of 9-year-old Keira, whose death in a car accident and donation of her heart gave a chance at life to a dying stranger, Max. She describes the medical and conceptual changes that led up to that extraordinary possibility and explains how, as a medic, you have to be able to combine technical professionalism with a sense of the sanctity of the human beings you work with. And she catches us up on how Max is doing eight years on.<br><br>This podcast is in association with <em>Serious Readers</em>. Use offer code ‘TBC’ for £100 off any HD Light and free UK delivery. Go to: <a href="http://www.seriousreaders.com/spectator">www.seriousreaders.com/spectator</a></div>
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