Pig-Heart Boy: Malorie Blackman

`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 . . .?