



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.
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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. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window I told myself I'd just dip in eleven hours later-it's now 5:47 a.m.-I've finished it, absolutely dazzled." This extraordinary novel set my blood fizzing-I quite literally couldn’t put it down. "That rarest of beasts: the perfect thriller.
