Patience

Patience
Victoria Scott
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 432pg
7 Jul 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781800240902
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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. If you were offered a chance to cure your child' s disease, would you take it? The Willow family have been through a lot together. Louise has devoted her life to her family and raising her disabled daughter, Patience. Pete now works abroad, determined to provide more, even if it means seeing less of those he loves. And Eliza, in the shadow of her sister, has a ' perfect' life in London, striving to live up to her mother' s high standards. Meanwhile, Patience lives her life quietly, watching and judging the world while she' s trapped in her own body. She laughs, she cries, she knows what she wants, but she can' t ever communicate this to those who make the decisions for her. Patience only wants a voice, but this is impossible. When the opportunity to put Patience into a new gene therapy trial to cure her Rett syndrome becomes available, opinions are divided. The stakes are high, and the Willow family face an almost impossible dilemma. And what is a ' normal life,' anyway? Is Patience about to find out. . . ?
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. Alongside her love of telling real-life stories, she has also always written fiction, penning plays, stories and poems ever since she first worked out how to use her parents' electric typewriter. When she' s not writing, Victoria enjoys running incredibly slowly, singing loudly, baking badly and travelling the world extensively. Victoria is a Faber Academy graduate. She has a degree in English from King' s College, London and a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from City University, London. She lives near London with her husband and two children, and works as a freelance journalist, media trainer and journalism tutor.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781800240902
Published: 7 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Aria
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 432

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