Bestselling author and palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke, the writer behind the medical TV drama series Breathtaking, has penned a riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart, interweaving the history of medical innovations behind transplant surgery with the plight of two children, one of whom desperately needs a new heart. The event will be chaired by Marg Mayne.

Rachel is a former broadcast journalist, practising hospital palliative care doctor and author of three Sunday Times bestselling books including Dear Life (shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Biography Award & longlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize) and Breathtaking (adapted into a TV series for ITV1 in 2024). She writes for the Guardian, Sunday Times, New Statesman, and Lancet, among others. Her television and radio appearances include BBC Question Time, BBC Newsnight, Channel 4 News and Sky News.