Second Hand Heart (by Catherine Ryan Hyde)

I’ve read quite a few of Catherine Ryan Hyde’s novels over the past twelve years or so, and liked them all. So when I saw a paperback edition of ‘Second Hand Heart’ on a church bookstall a few months ago, it seemed like an excellent use of fifty cents to buy it. I’ve just finished reading it, after picking it up a few days ago.

The story is mainly about a young woman called Vida, who is nineteen when we first meet her. All her life she has been ill, with a damaged heart; at any point she...