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New audiobook - the new winner of the Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction

It's been a long time since a book brought this many tears to my eyes. I'm not sure I could have read it when my children were younger. But it was also a real eye opener with a lot of fascinating information about medical history and innovations. A remarkable story featuring a lot of ordinary people showing remarkable compassion.
The #WomensPrize for non-fiction list was really strong again this year, and this is a worthy winner.

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Think this says everything. #wpnf25.

Glad I got it from the library and not bought it.

At any one time in the UK, around 7,000 people sit on the combined UK Transplant Waiting List. Of these, around 400 die every year while waiting for a transplant." In the US, the statistics are even more sobering. There are over 100,000 men, women and children on the national transplant list, of whom seventeen die every day while waiting.
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Quick break from reading to remind family def. pro-organ donation.

...there are currently over 60K people alive in Britain... thanks the gift of another person's heart, liver, kidney or lungs...

Two beautiful children and the heart transplant that connects them . This accounting of the medical teams who give their all, families who face the unthinkable, and the history and science of transplants is such an emotional read. Informative and impactful but oh how I cried.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Really great book interweaving the stories of the children and families on either side of a pediatric heart transplant, the providers who cared for them, and the history of the medical breakthroughs required for transplants to occur. My only quibble is that the transitions between the timelines and the inclusion of the history was a little clunky at times, but overall a remarkable book and a strong pick from the #WPNF25 long list.

I sobbed my way through this book this afternoon, but Henry looked after me. I loved Dear Life by this author and had read extracts of this one in the press, so I knew I‘d love it. The author has a way of making medical discussions accessible and turning the heart-rending into heart-warming (yes, deliberate choice of words for this book) whilst being sensitive to all parties.

I especially admire Keira‘s family, in particular her sisters. ❤️