The Silent Patient

The Silent Patient

• Author : ALEX MECHAELIDES
• Publisher : Orion (15 July 2019)
• Language : English
• Paperback : 352 pages
• ISBN-10 : 1409181634
• ISBN-13 : 978-1409181637
• Item Weight : 240 g
• Dimensions : 12.6 x 2.6 x 19.6 cm
• Country of Origin : India
• Generic Name : Book

The Silent Patient is a 2019 psychological thriller novel written by British-Cypriot author Alex Michaelides. The debut novel was published by Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers, on 5 February 2019.

The story is narrated by an English psychotherapist, Theo Faber, dealing with a patient who turns mute after murdering her husband. Upon its release, the book debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list. Later this book won the Goodreads Choice Award 2019 in the Mystery and Thriller category.

Alex Michaelides's 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.

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.

Theo Faber, a forensic psychotherapist with a keen interest in the Berenson case, successfully applies for a position at the Grove. 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. During their therapy sessions Alicia remains mute, But she gives a diary to Theo.

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.

To know more about Alicia, Theo contacts her cousin. He narrates an incident from their childhood that had happened shortly after her mother's suicide. He repeats the episode back to her, which induces her to speak. She tells him that the masked man entered her house and murdered Gabriel....

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