Good Patient by Nilesha Chauvet

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‘Pulses with urgency . . . unforgettable.’ reader 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.’ reader 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

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

About the Author: Nilesha Chauvet is a British Indian writer and 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 and is an ordained an interfaith minister. Her debut novel, Her Two Lives, was awarded a London Writers Award and shortlisted for the Spotlight First Novel Award and the McDermid Debut Award.

29 Jan 2026
 

The Good Patient: A deliciously dark psychological thriller about an ordinary woman’s extraordinary moral dilemma by Nilesha Chauvet ISBN 9780571382170