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The Good Patient

Nilesha Chauvet

A nurse pushed to extremes makes a fatal choice in this thought-provoking thriller from an exciting new voice.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571382170
Date Published
29.01.2026

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‘Pulses with urgency . . . unforgettable.’
⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley review
‘Bold and compelling, with complex, memorable characters.’ Mary Watson, author of The Cleaner

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 tense read with a slow build up to an explosive ending.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley review
‘Dark, profound and deeply thought provoking.’ Lisa Timoney

READERS LOVE NILESHA CHAUVET’S PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS
‘Brilliant! . . . I binged it.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review
‘Powerful . . . a first class thriller.’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review
‘I could not put this down.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review

‘In this deliciously dark thriller, nothing is as it seems.’ iNews
‘Such compulsive reading . . . its ferocious energy takes you on a wild, thought-provoking ride.’ Jennie Godfrey
‘It’s a long time since I’ve read a thriller that is quite so well written.’ Liz Nugent
‘I devoured it.’ Chris Whitaker

Critic Reviews

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

Critic Reviews

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

Critic Reviews

Gritty and close to the bone, Chauvet uses the crime novel to turn an uncompromising mirror on contemporary Britain.

Bonnie Burke-Patel

Critic Reviews

The Good Patient is gritty and unexpected, with complex, memorable characters, set at the fraught frontlines of the health service. Bold and compelling.

Mary Watson

NileshaChauvet

Nilesha Chauvet is a British Indian novelist and short story writer. She is also the managing director of GOOD, which advises commercial brands on purpose and helps charities to raise millions of pounds for good causes. A graduate of Faber Academy, Nilesha also studied creative writing at Curtis Brown Creative and City Lit. She read philosophy and theology at Oxford…

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