The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae

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Pub Date 29 Oct 2019 | Archive Date 05 Dec 2019
St. Martin's Press | St. Martin's Griffin

Description

For fans of Josie Silver's One Day in December, The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae is a wholly original, charismatic, and uplifting novel that no reader will soon forget.

Ailsa Rae is learning how to live. She’s only a few months past the heart transplant that—just in time—saved her life. Now, finally, she can be a normal twenty-eight-year-old. She can climb a mountain. Dance. Wait in line all day for tickets to Wimbledon.

But first, she has to put one foot in front of the other. So far, things are as bloody complicated as ever. Her relationship with her mother is at a breaking point and she wants to find her father. Then there's Lennox, whom Ailsa loved and lost. Will she ever find love again?

Her new heart is a bold heart. She just needs to learn to listen to it. From the hospital to her childhood home, on social media and IRL, Ailsa will embark on a journey about what it means to be, and feel, alive. How do we learn to be brave, to accept defeat, to dare to dream?

From Stephanie Butland, author of The Lost for Words Bookshop, The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae will warm you from the inside out.

For fans of Josie Silver's One Day in December, The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae is a wholly original, charismatic, and uplifting novel that no reader will soon forget.

Ailsa Rae is learning how to...


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ISBN 9781250217011
PRICE $20.99 (USD)
PAGES 416

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Featured Reviews

This was a well-written book that gave me an understanding of the subject of organ transplants. Ailsa Rae was born with a bad heart and she had surgeries to keep her alive. The time came when she had to have a new heart and just in time received one. The book helped me to understand what it is like to need a new organ and to receive a new organ. Ailsa had been so sick as a child that she missed out on so much. She had a best friend named Lennox, who was also sick and needed a transplant. He didn't get one in time so she had to face life without him. After receiving her new heart, she had to figure out living. She created a blog and let her viewers choose through polls on what she should do. Because of the meds and the steroids she needed to take, she gained weight and she worked to get her strength back and to get into shape, every single day. She realized how people could be so cruel, it hurt her but she was determined she wasn't going to give up.
This book has not only given me a better understanding but it also has made me think. As I write this review, I think, you don't just receive an organ and miraculously you are cured. This is something you have to take care of for the rest of your life by taking certain medications. Then she thought her life was saved because someone else died. I never realized all that someone goes through. The book guides you through the process of needing an organ and receiving an organ with dignity, realistically and compassion.
Thank you, Stephanie Butland for writing such a wonderful book. Your book has opened my eyes and heart because I knew I could check a box on my license and become an organ donor but other than that I knew nothing about it. I hope millions and millions of people read this book and think about not only becoming an , donor but what someone who receives one has to go through so that there will be more understanding and compassion and so much less cruelty.

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