Author: Alex Michaelides Title: The Silent Patient Publisher: Celadon Date Published: 02/05/2019
Read Dates: 07/07/2025- 07/13/2025
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This was my book club pick for July.
This was a re-read for me, a book that I read for the first time three years ago. I’ll admit it wasn’t as enjoyable the second time around, given that I already knew all the plot twists, but it was still a very enjoyable, masterfully written read!
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....
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