Bøker av Rachel Clarke

A brilliant combination of lyrical memoir and guide to living and dying, comparable to Kathryn Mannix's With the End in Mind and Julia Samuel's Grief Works, from the author of Your Life in My Hands.

The first of our organs to form, the last to die, the heart is both a simple pump and the symbol of all that makes us human: as long as it continues to beat, we hope. The Story of a Heart is the narrative of the staggering medical innovations that have given us heart transplants, interwoven with the story of two children - one of whom desperately waits for a heart to save his life.Setting out for a family day in Devon, nine-year-old Keira Ball suffered catastrophic brain injuries in a car accident. Against all the odds her heart continued to beat. Halfway across the country, the hospital in which Max Johnson lay with end-stage heart failure, received a potentially life-saving call . In an act of extraordinary generosity Keira's parents and siblings immediately and unanimously agreed that she would have wanted her organs donated.Rachel Clarke relates the emotional and urgent journey of Keira's heart and meticulously unpicks the history of the remarkable surgery that made it possible: a testament to medical innovation that stretches back over a century, involving the knowledge and dedication not just of headline-grabbing surgeons but of countless nurses and technicians, immunologists and physicians, of paramedics and the motorists who give way to their blue lights.Perhaps most of all, The Story of a Heart speaks of the compassion that shows itself in the protocols of respect to the dying, and in the ways we honour our loved ones: it is a story of the tenacity of love.

On a medieval world called Wayan, where wondrous beings unravel their destiny through Tarot reading, a powerful sorceress commits a shocking act by abducting the queen‿s young children and spiriting them away through enchanted portals. Their memories erased, the children grow up on Earth, oblivious to their heritage.

From the bestselling author of Dear Life, Breathtaking is a compassionate, heartbreaking and compelling account of an NHS doctor in the midst of the greatest public health crisis in living memory.

Assess reading fluency quickly and effectively across the school, from Reception to Year 6.

Ensure Year 6/P7 children know the National Curriculum 2014 requirements and are fully prepared for the Year X SATs with half termly grammar, punctuation and vocabulary progress tests. With six tests per year and a photocopiable record sheet, you can quickly find out which rules children find tricky and focus on those.

Ensure Year 5/P6 children know the National Curriculum 2014 requirements with half termly grammar, punctuation and vocabulary progress tests. With six tests per year and a photocopiable record sheet, you can quickly find out which rules children find tricky and focus on those.