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A powerful story about friendship, loyalty and family around this topical and controversial issue' - Guardian
'An engrossing story' - Daily Telegraph

'That's all I ever did - watch and listen. I was always a spectator, never a participant. I didn't call that living. I was alive - but that was all.'

Cameron is thirteen, and all he wants is a 'normal' life - friends, swimming, school, family.

But his life is far from normal. Not every thirteen-year-old desperately needs a new heart because theirs doesn't work properly.


Finally, one doctor offers hope.
Cameron could - if he and his parents agree - take part in a radical and controversial procedure involving the transplant of a pig's heart into his human body.

It's risky. And it's never been done before . . .

While Cameron comes to terms with the idea, he finds the world around him is much less accepting.

But surely everyone will understand that it's better to have a pig's heart that works than a human heart that doesn't - won't they . . .?

'A sensitive and informative story that provides a vivid insight into transgenics and xenotransplantations and still manages to squeeze in the inevitable guinea-pig and piggy in the middle jokes' - Independent

Pig-Heart Boy

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A powerful story about friendship, loyalty and family around this topical and controversial issue' - Guardian'An engrossing story' - Daily... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
    Publication Date: 05/02/2004
    ISBN13: 9780552551663, 978-0552551663
    ISBN10: 055255166X

    Number of Pages: 256

    Children & Teen , Teen & Young Adult

    Description

    A powerful story about friendship, loyalty and family around this topical and controversial issue' - Guardian
    'An engrossing story' - Daily Telegraph

    'That's all I ever did - watch and listen. I was always a spectator, never a participant. I didn't call that living. I was alive - but that was all.'

    Cameron is thirteen, and all he wants is a 'normal' life - friends, swimming, school, family.

    But his life is far from normal. Not every thirteen-year-old desperately needs a new heart because theirs doesn't work properly.


    Finally, one doctor offers hope.
    Cameron could - if he and his parents agree - take part in a radical and controversial procedure involving the transplant of a pig's heart into his human body.

    It's risky. And it's never been done before . . .

    While Cameron comes to terms with the idea, he finds the world around him is much less accepting.

    But surely everyone will understand that it's better to have a pig's heart that works than a human heart that doesn't - won't they . . .?

    'A sensitive and informative story that provides a vivid insight into transgenics and xenotransplantations and still manages to squeeze in the inevitable guinea-pig and piggy in the middle jokes' - Independent

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