The Graceview Patient - by Caitlin Starling (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Misery meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this genre-bending, claustrophobic hospital gothic from the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence.

Margaret's rare autoimmune condition has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated and in pain. It has no cure, but she's making do as best she can--until she's offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial.

The conditions are simple, if grueling: she will live at the hospital as a full-time patient, subjecting herself to the near-total destruction of her immune system and its subsequent regeneration. The trial will essentially kill most of, but not all of her. But as the treatment progresses and her body begins to fail, she stumbles upon something sinister living and spreading within the hospital.

Unsure of what's real and what is just medication-induced delusion, Margaret struggles to find a way out as her body and mind succumb further to the darkness lurking throughout Graceview's halls.

Review Quotes

"[A] genre-bending tour de force... Equal parts medical drama, psychological thriller, and gothic horror, the book pulls readers in and refuses to let them go." --Library Journal, starred review

"Starling expertly immerses the reader in Meg's anxiety, showing how even the most routine experiences during a hospital stay become cause for concern to her unsettled mind. The novel's horrors are all the more palpable... [and] readers are sure to be frightened." --Publishers Weekly

"A resonant and horrifying fever dream, The Graceview Patient is a lashing depiction of disability and the trials of healthcare. Starling deploys deft prose to wrap readers into a hallucinatory pursuit of healing--and the unraveling of reality and loss of agency at the hands of those we are told to trust most. An absolute triumph--I devoured each and every page." --Taylor Grothe, author of Hollow and Lethal Kiss

"Haunting and horrifying, with needle-sharp precision." --S.A. Barnes, author of Dead Silence and Ghost Station

"Caitlin Starling's brilliant and disturbing The Graceview Patient is a devious and twisty novel of body horror and transformation that will leave you breathless! Wonderfully weird and powerful!" --Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of the Joe Ledger thrillers and NecroTek.

About the Author

CAITLIN STARLING is the nationally bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence, the Bram Stoker-nominated The Luminous Dead, and Last To Leave The Room. Her newest novels The Starving Saints and The Graceview Patient epitomize her love of genre-hopping horror; her bibliography spans besieged castles, alien caves, and haunted hospitals. Her short fiction has been published by GrimDark Magazine and Neon Hemlock, and her nonfiction has appeared in Nightmare, Uncanny, and Nightfire. Caitlin also works in narrative design, and has been paid to invent body parts. She's always on the lookout for new ways to inflict insomnia.