The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away: A Death that Brought the Gift of Life
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away: A Death that Brought the Gift of Life
By (Author) Cole Moreton
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
4th October 2017
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Transplant surgery
True stories of heroism, endurance and survival
Memoirs
Coping with / advice about death and bereavement
Doctor / patient relationship
Medical sociology
Coping with heart conditions / advice about heart and circulatory health
362.197950092
Physical Properties
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
210g
Description
Gripping so powerfully emotional that at times I had to put it down to wipe my eyes
Mail on Sunday
How do you say thank you to someone for giving you their heart It is the greatest gift a person can ever give.
Marc is a promising young footballers of 15, growing up in Scotland. A few hundred miles away in England, Martin is a fun-loving 16-year-old. Both are enjoying their summers when they are suddenly struck down by debilitating illnesses. Within days, the boys are close to death.
Although their paths have never crossed, their fortunes are about to be bound in the most extraordinary, intimate way. One of them will die and in doing so, he will save the others life.
This is a deeply powerful and dramatic story. It is extremely rare for the family of a donor to have any personal contact with the recipient of their loved ones organ. Yet remarkably, the mothers of these two boys meet and become friends, enabling the extraordinary, bittersweet moment in which a mother who has lost her son meets the boy he saved. Reaching out and placing her palm flat against his chest, she feels the heart of her son beating away inside another. Her boy, the boy who gave his heart away.
Reviews
Gripping so powerfully emotional that at times I had to put it down to wipe my eyes
Mail on Sunday
Author Bio
Cole Moreton is an author and broadcaster exploring who we are and how we live. He writes for Event, the Mail on Sunday magazine, and was named Interviewer of the Year at the Press Awards in 2016. His Radio 4 series, The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away, won gold as the Radio Academys Audio Moment of the Year in 2016. His first book, Hungry for Home, was shortlisted for the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Cole is a father of four who lives by the coast and spends as much time as possible staring out to sea.
Writing The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away has completely changed his mind about organ donation.
