The story of a heartThe 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. One summer day, nine year old Keira suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident. Though her brain and the rest of her body began to shut down, her heart continued to beat. In an act of extraordinary generosity, Keira's parents and siblings agreed that she would have wanted to be an

the body continues to provide challenges (every group meeting seems to begin the dreaded 'organ recital')

She and her best guy friends have stuck to that

Daniel Deronda opens with one of the most memorable encounters in fiction: Gwendolen Harleth

'People embraced each other

In 'Mother's Boy

and of the collision between youthful idealism and jaded reality as the Sixties drew to a close

His victory brought decades of national yearning to fruition

this is the gripping

the bear cub

but is also about the power of speaking out

and beyond

He is certain this figure from his past isn't here by coincidence