Patience

Project Jupiter

Elliot’s an incredible observer, able to memorise and categorise in astonishing detail. He’s also an ideal friend, overflowing with compassion and warmth and fun. But he’s stuck, forced to spend his days in an empty corridor, either gazing out of the window at the birds in a tree or staring into a white wall – wherever the Catholic Sisters who run the ward have decided to park his wheelchair…. Read an excerpt from Toby Litt’s astonishing novel Patience (Galley Beggar Press), shortlisted for the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Award.