The tell-tale heart
By: Jill Dawson
Edition: [Large print edition].
Publisher: ISIS Large Print; ISIS Large Print Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781445099323; 9781445099330
Subjects: Heart; Patients; Life change events; Diseases; Transplantation; Fiction
Description: Patrick, a 50-year-old professor of American Studies, drinker and womaniser, has been given six months to live. In a rural part of Cambridgeshire, a teenager dies in a motorcycle accident. When his heart is transplanted into Patrick's chest, the lives of two strangers are forever conjoined. Patrick makes a good recovery from surgery, but has the strange feeling that his old life "won't have him". He discovers that his donor's name was Drew Beamish, and becomes intensely curious, not only about Drew but what shaped him: his family and culture, the ancestor who took part in the famous Littleport riots of 1816, and the bleak yet beautiful landscape of the Fens. Patrick longs to know the story of his heart.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London : Sceptre, 2014.