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.
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.
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*
An eye-opening and heartwarming tale
*Woman's Own*
Inspired by truth, Patience and her family come alive on the pages.
I felt every single emotion with them
*Alice Peterson, author of Monday to Friday Man*
An extraordinary novel about love and hope and family and what
happens in the space between the words. I adored it
*Kirsten Hesketh, author of Another Us*
An eye-opening, sincere and beautiful debut... A really special
novel that I suspect will have a tangible effect on readers'
*NB Magazine*
Absorbing, poignant story of a family's emotional rollercoaster in
the aftermath of participating in a risky medical trial
*LoveReading*
Love, hope, family, all wrapped up in Patience by Victoria
Scott
*Weekend Reads*
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