SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024
A Book of the Year 2024 in the Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, New Scientist, The Week, Spectator and Prospect.
A Waterstones Book of the Year 2024.
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
More praise for THE STORY OF A HEART:
Beautifully written and utterly vital’ ― iPaper
‘Remarkable… Clarke’s evocative, empathetic writing makes you catch your breath.’ ― Guardian
‘What a book . . . The perfect book’ ― Chris Evans
‘Clarke could not have rendered this story more tenderly.’ ― The Times
‘Rachel Clarke's finest book yet’ ― Financial Times
‘The best narrative non-fiction I've read in years.’ ― Christie Watson
‘This is THE MOST BEAUTIFUL and riveting book: written with such humanity, empathy and knowledge, such tact and drama and eloquence. Vital reading, lifelong revelation’ ― Laura Cumming