About the author
Rachel Clarke is a British physician and former television journalist who writes about palliative care, the National Health Service, illness, dying, and the relationships formed around medical treatment.
Your Life in My Hands, Dear Life, and Breathtaking drew on clinical work and reporting. The Story of a Heart follows the donor and recipient families connected by a paediatric heart transplant.
Where to start
Start with The Story of a Heart for transplant medicine told through two families, or Dear Life for Clarke’s writing on palliative care.