The Good Patient
A deliciously dark psychological thriller about an ordinary woman’s extraordinary moral dilemma
by Nilesha Chauvet
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Pub Date Jan 29 2026 | Archive Date Feb 04 2026
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Description
A nurse pushed to extremes makes a fatal choice in this thought-provoking thriller from an exciting new voice.
Two patients are fighting for their lives. Nina, the hospital nurse, reads their notes:
Leroy: stab wound, gang member, police escort.
Dev: stomach pain, artist, distraught mother.
Nina is meant to treat all her patients equally: not to pick favourites, and not to judge. Except tonight, understaffed and overstretched, both patients need her. She makes a split-second choice – and leaves one man to die.
And that’s when she realises that on this busy hospital ward, no-one is exactly what they seem...
A Note From the Publisher
UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR QUOTATION
Advance Praise
'Dark, profound and deeply thought provoking, The Good Patient is a searing portrayal of how a failing NHS, and a community in meltdown, lead one woman to make moral judgments with devastating implications.' LISA TIMONEY, aka NAOMI WILLIAMS, author of THE WOMAN IN WARD 9
'Chauvet has created a morally complex protagonist who inhabits an almost dystopian world with a broken health care system, a community beset by crime and fractured by divisions due to age, sex, class, and race. The skill of the story is how scarily close to reality it all feels. This haunting state of the nation novel left me chilled.' CHRIS BRIDGES, author of SICK TO DEATH
'Gritty and close to the bone, Chauvet uses the crime novel to turn an uncompromising mirror on contemporary Britain.' BONNIE BURKE-PATEL, author of I DIED AT FALLOW HALL
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780571382170 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
