Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

The heart-rending story of a child’s heart transplant

As nine-year-old Max resigns himself to death, a saviour arrives in the person of Keira, the victim of a tragic car crash, whose family opts to donate her organs

Dr Christiaan Barnard, the pioneering surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant in South Africa in 1968. [Getty Images]
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