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Hannah's Choice: A Daughter's Love For Life. The Mother Who Let Her Make The Hardest Decision Of All.more info >
Hannah Jones
In 2008 Hannah Jones made worldwide headlines after refusing a heart transplant offered eight years after she suffered a rare side effect of chemotherapy drugs given to treat leukaemia aged four. Doctors gave her months to live but Hannah was determined to enjoy life to the full. She'd had enough of hospitals and wanted to be at home with her family. But two years later, Hannah had grown strong enough to decide she was ready to have the operation and in August 2009, she was given a new heart at Great Ormond Street Hospital.News
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HC gives backing to Hannah Jones's choice
The memoir of a teenage cancer sufferer who took the decision to have a heart transplant at the age of 14 has been bought by HarperCollins. Hannah's Choice, by mother and daughter Kirsty and Hannah Jones, will be published in March 2010. Carole Tonkinson, publisher of Harper NonFiction, and editor Anna Valentine bought world rights from Ivan Mulcahy at Mulcahy Conway Associates for an undisclosed sum. Jones was diagnosed with leukaemia aged four but the drugs given to her to help battle the illness damaged her heart. During the next eight years, doctors felt Jones's body could grow to accommodate the heart defect as she grew stronger. However, she suffered from sudden heart failure at the age of 12 and was told she needed a heart transplant to live. Jones was adamant that she did not want the transplant. Two years later, the right side of her heart stopped working and her kidneys began to fail. As she reached her 14th birthday, she agreed to the transplant. Valentine said: 'Hannah and Kirsty's relationship is an inspiration. This compelling memoir shows us the trust, quiet strength and sense of humour that have sustained them both.'
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/95622-hc-gives-backing-to-hannahs-choice.…