Patience

Booksellers Association Book of the Month and LoveReading Debut of the Month

About the author

Victoria Scott has been a journalist for almost two decades, working for a wide variety of outlets including the BBC, Al Jazeera, Time Out, Doha News and the Telegraph, and she is also a Faber Academy graduate. She lives near London with her husband and two children, and works as a freelance journalist, media trainer and journalism tutor. Patience is her first novel.

Summary

The story of Patience, a severely disabled young woman, and her family's decision to enter her into a pioneering but risky gene therapy trial.

Foreword

BA Book of the Month and LoveReading Debut of the Month, Patience tells the story of a severely disabled young woman and her family's decision to enter her into a pioneering but risky gene therapy trial.

Additional text

Love, hope, family, all wrapped up in Patience by Victoria Scott

Report

'A thought-provoking, compelling and entertaining read. I could barely put the book down until its equally heart-wrenching and heart-warming ending. A wonderful, smart and funny book - I know readers will absolutely love it' Louise Fein, bestselling author of People Like Us

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Scott, Scott Victoria
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781800240902
• ISBN: 978-1-80024-090-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Fiction & related items, Fiction, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Siblings, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Fiction and Related items, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary