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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Após cometer o assassinado de seu marido, uma mulher se recusa a falar qualquer coisa, deixando suspeitas e mistérios não resolvidos sobre o caso. E o terapeuta Theo Faber está obcecado em descobrir o motivo da violencia e do silencio. Só ela sabe o que aconteceu. Só ele pode fazê-la falar. “Alicia Berenson was thirty-three years old when she killed her husband. They had been married for seven years.” My second book in a row (not purposefully!) wherein the plot revolves around a therapist and a patient that doesn't talk! (I just read 'Please Tell Me' by Mike Omer) This is a good read, with a really big twist! Part Four, Chapter Six is pretty fun with the therapist stirring up the tension between many of the characters in Alicia’s life, using her diary as bait! Ahh...the diary...
Meet the hottest-tipped debut novelists of 2019 The Silent Patient is narrated by Theo Faber, a psychotherapist determined to discover why Alicia Berenson, a famous artist accused of murdering her husband, has refused to speak since her husband’s death. The therapeutic setting was inspired by Michaelides’s own experience. “Therapy is very important to me and has been a major part of my life,” he says. Running through the novel is the Greek myth of Alcestis, and Euripides’s play of the same name. The Alcestis theme is perhaps one of the reasons that The Silent Patient is finding such traction both among early readers and the tranche of movie executives who fought to option it. With its story of female sacrifice and the silencing of a woman post-trauma, it feels highly relevant in a post #MeToo world. “It’s about silence as a weapon,” Michaelides says. “And it was very clear in my head when I was writing the book that Alicia was surrounded by these men who were imprisoning her. Like Alcestis, Alicia is trapped and she’s denied a voice. It’s a lifetime of being made to think that she wasn’t worthy, she wasn’t good enough, and maybe that’s something that a lot of women [readers] have been responding to.” The novel has already been optioned by Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, with Michaelides due to write the screenplay, a fitting circularity for a novelist who has spent the past 15 years working as a screenwriter. AwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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 spotlight of the tabloids 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 search for the truth leads him down a terrifying path and threatens to consume him. No library descriptions found.
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