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. 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. 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.
Who wrote the silent patient windows#
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. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. The decision to read was entirely my own and this review forms my honest opinion.Instant #1 New York Times bestseller.This program includes a bonus interview with the author.The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband-and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. *I received a proof copy from a source independent of the author and the publisher. Brad Pitt’s Plan B are developing the film of The Silent Patient: they have won Best Film Oscars for The Departed, 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight.
He was inspired to write it while doing a post graduate course in psychotherapy and working part-time at a secure psychiatric unit for two years.
He wrote the film The Devil You Know starring Rosamund Pike and co-wrote The Brits are Coming, starring Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Stephen Fry, Parker Posey and Sofia Vergara. About the AuthorĪlex Michaelides was born in Cyprus in 1977. The Silent Patient is a heart-stopping debut thriller about a woman’s brutal and random act of violence against her husband – and the obsessed with discovering why. Theo Faber, a forensic psychotherapist, has been consumed with the case for five years, and is the only person able to unravel the mystery of why. That is, until one evening when Gabriel returns late from a fashion shoot and Alicia shoots him five times and then never speaks another word. She is a famous painter, and her husband, Gabriel, is an in-demand fashion photographer.
She lives in a house in one of the most desirable areas of London. The Silent Patient is due to be published on 7th February 2019.Īlicia lives a life most dream of. Incredibly clever, well written, well paced and just bloody brilliant! With a film in the works, this is going to be everywhere!! Alex Michaelides is quite obviously talented, and I cannot wait to read what he comes up with next. There is no doubt that The Silent Patient is a cracking read.
I think with all the hype about the ending I did read with a suspicious mind and I made it my mission to come up with all kinds of weird and wonderful endings so as not to be too wrongfooted, and the actual ending was one (of about ten, I was never sure!) that I had in mind. I was lured in and held captive, once I got to the halfway point I had to stay awake and finish – no matter how long it took I just had to know how it ended!Īs for that ending. The prologue grabbed me immediately, and from then on the suspense is slowly turned up to the max. It’s so hard to go into much more detail than the synopsis offers for fear of giving anything away, however I will say that this was one hell of a read! Before I even opened the book, I was utterly intrigued by the concept. These tantalisingly lead the reader steadily closer to the events of that fateful night. Primarily told in the first person narrative by forensic psychotherapist, Theo Faber, it is also interspersed with diary entries from The Silent Patient herself, Alicia. I have heard so much about this book over the last few months that I could barely wait to get started, I was even a little naughty and brought it forward in my tightly packed reading schedule, just so that I could finally know what everyone was talking about!
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