The author introduces a new character, and you learn certain things about them, but in later chapters, those things turn out to be either false or rather shown from a different perspective. The ending is truly shocking and changes everything you know about the main characters in a split second. The Silent Patient was one of those books, whose final twist I didn’t see coming at all. 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.This book was all over Bookstagram and reading the reviews - “A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting”, I was thoroughly excited to read it. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. 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. 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.Īlicia'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.
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. Promising to be the debut novel of the season 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.Īlicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. "An unforgettable -and Hollywood-bound -new thriller.A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy."
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