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I liked the writing style of The Silent Patient. Michaelides is primarily a writer of screenplays and that skill has come in handy while working on The Silent Patient-the scenes are so descriptive and thus easy to visualize. The switch between the two voices is refreshing and keeps you hooked because you feel like you are on the verge of discovering something that could be crucial to the plot. Theo, while conducting therapy sessions with Alicia, also speaks to some of her relatives and acquaintances. And they are all intriguing, undecipherable characters. We also get to know other people like her husband, Gabriel, her brother-in-law, Max, and some of her friends through these entries. The narrative has Alicia’s journal entries that give us an insight into her life because by the time we meet her she has already stopped talking.
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As Alicia has had a similar upbringing, he feels she will be able to connect with him and that he is the only one who can make her talk.Īlso read: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Blown away
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Theo Faber, a London-based psychotherapist, is obsessed with Alicia as he has spent two decades in therapy himself, trying to overcome the trauma induced by a father who was cruel to him. She is taken to the Grove, a secure psychiatric unit, but no medication or treatment can make her talk. But after shooting him in the head five times, she stops speaking. The Silent Patient is a taut psychological thriller that you won’t be able to put down.Īlicia Berenson, a rising artist, has been convicted of murdering her fashion-photographer husband, Gabriel. The blurb doesn’t do justice to the riveting story. I felt I could read a few pages and then do something else and come back to it and so on and so forth. I only picked it up when I wanted a light read. I put off reading it because the blurb made it sound like a garden-variety thriller. It’s also being adapted into a screenplay for Brad Pitt’s production company. Authors like C.J Tudor and Lee Child whom I considered the masters of thrillers were raving about it, calling it smart, sophisticated and a very clever book. I had heard a lot about Alex Michaelides’ ‘The Silent Patient’.