The Graceview Patient: A Novel

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.

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Published Oct 14, 2025

304 pages

Average rating: 7.5

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AuberneFH
Dec 12, 2025
10/10 stars
Another banger from Caitlin Starling! I read it in one sitting I was totally engrossed. It hit very close to home as someone with health issues, it felt quite personal at times. I thought the pacing was good, the characters were great (even when they were terrible) and I think it did a good job at having a horror story set in a hospital without making it too "haunted hospital bad and scary" like a lot of other media does with the same kind of setting. Lots of medical/body horror, not for the squeamish. The ending felt a bit too ambiguous, I wanted just a little more of what was going on but it didn't take away from my enjoyment of the book.

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