Rachel Clarke is a bestselling writer (Dear Life and Breathtaking) and NHS Doctor whose books explore subjects that are often taboo, bringing her unique understanding of end-of-life care and compassion for the dying. She will be talking to Marg Mayne about her latest book, an unforgettable story of the medical innovations behind transplant surgery, and how one family’s grief transformed into a life-saving gift for another. When Keira was nine, she suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident but her heart continued to beat. Nine-year-old Max, meanwhile, had been hospitalised with a virus that was causing his young heart to fail. With host 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.