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The Silent Patient Spiral-Bound | 2021-05-04

Alex Michaelides

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Alex Michaelides's #1 New York Times bestseller and international sensation, now in paperback.

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.

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.

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--a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 368 pages
Item Weight: 0.7 lbs
Dimensions: 5.4 x 1.0 x 8.3 inches
"An unforgettable--and Hollywood-bound--new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek Tragedy."
--Entertainment Weekly

"Superb... This edgy, intricately plotted psychological thriller establishes Michaelides as a major player in the field."
--Publisher's Weekly, starred review

"Pulling off a novel where the protagonist stays mum isn't easy, but this impressive, immersive debut--Brad Pitt's company has snapped up film rights--establishes Michaelides as a writer to watch."
--People, Book of the Week

"Impressive debut...The Silent Patient is intelligent, imaginative and a terrific read."
--The Times (London), Book of the Month

"The Silent Patient may be a first novel, but it has the pace and finesse of a master."
--BBC

"That rarest of beasts: the perfect thriller."
--A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

"Alex Michaelides has crafted a totally original, spellbinding psychological mystery so quirky, so unique that it should have its own genre."
--David Baldacci

Alex Michaelides was born in Cyprus to a Greek-Cypriot father and an English mother. He studied English literature at Cambridge University and got his MA in screenwriting at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He is the author of the international bestseller The Silent Patient.